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Journey to Ararat: By Friedrich Parrot. With Map and Woodcuts. Translated by ... Friedrich von Parrot Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1845 |
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Էջ 133 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Էջ 133 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Էջ 142 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Էջ 241 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Էջ 142 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the mouth, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Էջ 241 - The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained...
Էջ 147 - Nothing can be more beautiful than its shape, more awful than its height. All the surrounding mountains sink into insignificance when compared to it. It is perfect in all its parts ; no hard rugged feature, no unnatural prominences, every thing is in harmony, and all combines to render it one of the sublimest objects in nature.
Էջ 191 - I found myself on a gently vaulted, nearly cruciform surface, of about two hundred paces in circuit, which at the margin sloped off precipitously on every side, but particularly towards the south-east and north-east. Formed of eternal ice, without rock or stone to interrupt its continuity, it was the austere silvery head of old Ararat.
Էջ 191 - ... had developed itself to our eyes, and completely intercepted the view of the summit. At this our spirits, which had never fluctuated so long as we supposed that we had a view of all the difficulties to be surmounted, sank not a little, and our strength, exhausted by the hard work of cutting steps in the ice, seemed hardly adequate to the attainment of the now invisible goal. Yet, on calculating what was already done, and what remained to be done, on considering the proximity of the succeeding...
Էջ 172 - At first the progress was easy, because the acclivity was not very steep, and besides it was covered with a layer of fresh snow on which it was easy to walk ; the few cracks in the ice, also, which occurred, were of no great breadth, and could be easily stepped over. But this joy did not last long ; for, after we had advanced about 200 paces, the steepness increased to such a degree, that we were no longer able to tread securely on the snow, but, in order to save ourselves from sliding down on the...