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[Printed label:] VELVET PAPER MEMORANDUM BOOK. So prepared as effectually to secure the writing from erasure; with a METALLIC PENCIL, the point of which is not liable to break. The point of the pencil should be kept smoothly scraped flat and in writing it should be held in the manner of a common Pen. [Mepal] Copiapo 405 Nautical miles [Guantajaya] [Pasco] Copiap [Arqueto] Mr Caldcleugh veins NNW SSE Carb of copper at top. [page 1b
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[Printed label:] VELVET PAPER MEMORANDUM BOOK. So prepared as effectually to secure the writing from erasure; with a METALLIC PENCIL, the point of which is not liable to break. The point of the pencil should be kept smoothly scraped flat in writing it should be held in the manner of a common Pen. Anchored 30th [September 1835] at Blonde Cove Soap [Drying] Letter Paper Chaffers Keg of Spirits Captain [page 1b
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[Printed label:] VELVET PAPER MEMORANDUM BOOK. So prepared as effectually to secure the writing from erasure; with a METALLIC PENCIL, the point of which is not liable to break. The point of the pencil should be kept smoothly scraped flat in writing it should be held in the manner of a common Pen. Charles Darwin H.M.S. Beagle Oliva 2 [Penus] Barnacles Pecten [mien] [Granitic] blocks [Trigona] inclined strata Bones no [petrel] drift pebbles high up. NE [lan] NW dip SW 25 8 __ 200 14/ 179 / 14
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Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press.
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the pencil should be kept smoothly scraped flat and in writing it should be held in the manner of a common Pen. Some have pages torn out one has a cover torn off; some show stains from storms, but on the whole the writing mostly with the Metallic Pencil, but sometimes in ink is remarkably legible. They are labelled on the outside with a rough itinerary in Darwin's handwriting, written on a white label. The first pages are often filled with travellers' memoranda necessaries to purchase in the
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