RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of  Dufferin and Ava, Letters from high latitudes, etc. CUL-DAR205.2.160. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.2 contains notes on means of distribution.

The brown crayon number '18' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Migration.

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Lord Dufferin's Voyage to High Latitudes 1857

p 280 Bear or Cherie isld about 10 miles long, composed of secondary rocks, principally sandstone & Limestone (& Coal believed to exist there)— lies 280 miles due N. of N. Cape. (∴ oceanic isld) & not volcanic

p 309 on shores of Spitzbergen much drift timber brought by Gulf-stream.—

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Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of. 1857. Letters from high latitudes: being some account of a voyage in the schooner yacht "Foam," 85 o.m. to Iceland, Jan Mayen, & Spitzbergen, in 1856. London.


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