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* ' (a)'] marginal pencil. '(a)' pencil. * Beechey 1831, vol. 1, p. 64 Elizabeth=Henderson's Island; Savage p. 61. * Forster 1778, pp. 147-48. * Moorea. Darwin described seeing the encircling reef of Moorea from the mountains of Tahiti in his 17 November 1835 entry in the Beagle diary, pp. 368-9: The island is completely encircled by a reef, with the exception of one small gateway; at this distance a narrow but well defined line of brilliant white where the waves first encountered the wall of coral
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Darwin, C. R. [1835]. [Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow]. Cambridge: [privately printed].
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possessing only front legs. 3 Venomous snakes, including copperheads and water moccasins. 4 Rattlesnakes. 5 Old World venomous snakes. 6 John Milton (1608-1674), poet. Paradise lost 4. 799-800. Darwin recalled in his Autobiography (p. 85): 'Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.' 7 A genus of bryozoans; marine leaf-like collonial animals. [page]
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Darwin, C. R. [1835]. [Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow]. Cambridge: [privately printed].
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, accompanying the Beagle, on the first surveying expedition to South America, 1826-1830, and author of Narrative 1. [page] 1
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Darwin, C. R. [1835]. [Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow]. Cambridge: [privately printed].
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to burst their envelope and become attached to some basis. I believe that in Zoophites universally, the gemmule produces a single polypus, which afterwards or at the same time grows with its cell, or single articulation. The Beagle left the strait of Magellan in the middle of winter: she found her road out by a wild unfrequented channel; well might Sir J. Nasborough2 call the west coast South Desolation, because it is so desolate a land 1 Marie-Jules-César Lelorgne de Savigny (1777-1851
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Stoddart, D. R. ed. 1962. Coral islands by Charles Darwin: with introduction, map and remarks. Atoll Research Bulletin no. 88: 1-20.
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encircled by one grand reef, or as in Whylootacke. (seen by the Beagle) when one single one is so situated, it becomes a question in which of the two classes they ought to be arranged.— In the Isd. of Caledonia, as drawn on a large scale in Krusenstern's Atlas, the reef will be seen prolonged at each extremity. encircling the continuation, [page]
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Darwin, C. R. [1835]. [Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow]. Cambridge: [privately printed].
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(1796-1861), Cambridge clergyman, botanist and mineralogist. He became Darwin's scientific mentor when at Cambridge and received and preserved Darwin's Beagle specimens during the voyage. [page 2
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Lesson `Voyage de la Coquille' [Theory of subsidence?] "(Species theory back of page)"
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work was not previously known to be in the Beagle library. Note the similar point made by Darwin in Journal of researches, p. 568. 2 Lesson and Garnot 1826-1830. Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson. [signed] CUL-DAR.LIB.199 Text Lesson, René-Primevère and Garnot, Prosper. 1826-1830. Zoologie. In Louis-Isidore Duperrey, Voyage autour du monde, executé par ordre du Roi
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Darwin, C. R. 'Chiloe Janr. 1835' [Beagle field notes]. CUL-DAR35.328,328a-328j Transcribed by Gordon Chancellor and John van Wyhe. (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/) [328] Chiloe Janr. 1835 binder: cut away blank pages page in ink. binder...pages] not in Darwin's hand. [328v] [blank] [328a] [blank] [328av
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). I have no doubt, from external appearance, that I saw other dykes. The cleavage where most regular, was inclined at a small 5°-10° (or were horizontal) to the E by N: where in some places where more highly inclined it dipped more northerly, even to NE by N: This locality is some miles to the ENE of the high granite mountain of the ESE WNW ranges 1 Beagle diary pp. 277-8: 4th The NW winds continued to prevail we only managed to cross a sort of great bay anchored in an excellent harbor. — This
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The peak of Aconcagua is known by angular measurement made by the Beagle to be 2300 ft (a) I was assured by an intelligent arriero that he has seen smoke issue from the group of mountains called Tupungato. These lie about a degree S of mendoza, in the central Cordilleras. 44
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26 ). This volcano has one or two strong eruptions annually: people in Castro believe, if the Corcobado is quiet for two or three years, a strong earthquake will follow. At the foot of the mountain, there is immense quantities of pumice. 1 Bartholemew James Sulivan (1810-1890), second Lieutenant on the Beagle. 444 vers
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Cordilleras.– at Rialeja, from morning of Jan 20th to 23d there was a tremendous eruption, the air sky for a long time being blackened (B), with ashes.– In a New Orleans paper dated Feb. 7th, there is a letter from Omoa giving an account of several towns being demolished 5 volcanos having burst out near Truxillo.– Was it not December that S. Martha was overthrown with such destruction of human life? — On Jan 19th (1835) we saw from the Beagle anchored at S. Carlos. the at midnight the volcano of Osorno
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borne out by the Lima fact of sloping of bed of river, terminated by descent of 40 ft. Probably not anticlinal. [sketch] V. Private Journal1 1 Beagle diary. 46
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). that being of unusual energy its effects remain apparent, while all traces of separate lesser ones are soon obliterated. With respect to the ancient crystalline rocks. We find the formation varying much in its mineralogical nature. The most abundant is mica slate which varys in its color, often being very ferruginous which contains very many distinct crystals of feldspar (2553). So that in many places it ought 1 Philip Gidley King (1817-1904), Midshipman on the Beagle. 344 vers
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) Valdivia gneiss auriferous Few Less earthquakes. Cudico Padre.1 at least 8. volcanoes. (3. Principal one. Antuco, Villarica Osorno ) Variation 18 1 Darwin wrote in the Beagle diary for 12 February 1835: On account of the tired horse I determined to stop close by at the Mission of Cudico; to the Friar of which I had a letter of introduction. — Cudico is an intermediate district between the forest the Llanos
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formation than that of Chiloe: I found at the Castle of Niebla a great bed of the sandstone, traversed by an irregular one of softer sam sort. the whole mass divided into very regular layers which dipped at angle 45 . a sort of cleavage, viz: [sketch] 1 Darwin wrote in the Beagle diary for 18 February 1835: I crossed over to the Fort called Niebla, which is on the opposite side of the bay to the Corral where we are at anchor. — The Fort is in a most ruinous state; the carriages of guns are so
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(a) In the subsequent visit of the Beagle Mr Kent procured for me from the cliffs of sandstone at Tom . (to the North of Lirguen) some shells other organic remains. They are of species, which I do not know: in which respect they agree with those found at the Rapel, nearly to the age of which every reason would incline it would one to attribute. They occur chiefly in very large, hard, grey calcareous sandstone concretions. Are associated with silicified wood, which has become perforated. There
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were packed together in filled by black vegetable earth. I am assured they are likewise found on the highest hills. In the subsequent visit of the Beagle to this point Mr Kent was kind enough to make some observations, on this subject. Behind Concepcion, on a hill called the Sentinella, at an elevation of 164 ft. (Barom:) there were 1 Darwin refers to Caldcleugh's forthcoming 'An account of the great earthquake experienced in Chile on the 20th of February, 1835; with a map' read 26 November 1835
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Shells at Concepcion — Whether lying on a plain or a flat hill
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No 3 in the sides of a dry ditch a short distance from Mr. Walford's house — in this stratum Choros Limpets are the most numerous — in the others not so common— [sketch] [Beagle diary, p. 303: 6th I crossed the Bay to Lirguen to see the best coal-mine of Concepción: as all the rest which I have seen, it is rather Lignite than Coal occurs in a very modern formation. — The mine is not worked, for the coal when placed in a heap has the singular property of spontaneously igniting, it is certain
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(a) Specimen from the Beagle from Papudo showed me a brown siliceous granite. 55
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[Notes to 764 (18)r] (a) Section1 [small sketches] 1 Sketch of a section of Cr ter Beagle (Beagle Crater) with an islet in the middle. Angle measurements and calculations are drawn below it. 765 (19
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) Abingdon Isd5 Consists chiefly of smally cellular reddish Brown Lava, abounding with very large numerous Cryst of glassy Feldspar. — (3288) (Also Sandstone Crater. — 6 There is other variety however, more compact almost composed of less fractured Cryst glassy Feldspar angular vesicular (3289) (cavities. — In the former the appearance = singularly that of imbedded fragments Indefatigable Island7 very little Bare Lava Barrington8 Tampoco [neither]. — Culpepper9 Wenams10 1 Beagle surveyor Edward Main
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of crater is a deep lake of very salt water, is little, if at all elevated above the sea.) — In the middle are Three Islands3 , in one of which a small Crater is very evident: — In the whole circumference escarpement the rock is Volcanic Sandstone [const] (3249), generally of brown yellow color not very compact or hard. — some of the lower strata are 1 Caleta Tagus (Tagus Cove), Isla Isabela (Albemarle Island). 0°15.671'S, 91°22.279'W 2 Cr ter Beagle (Beagle Crater), Isla Isabela (Albemarle
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Crater full of Salt Water. 1 Whale Hill is now known as Volc n Darwin (Darwin Volcano), Isla Isabela (Albemarle Island). 2 Sketch of Cr ter Beagle (Beagle Crater) (1) and Caleta Tagus (Tagus Cove/Banks Cove) (2) with the word Capt Fitz Roy written above what is now known as Darwin Lake. [The following pages are single unfolded sheets measuring 20.5 x 25.5 cm. They were written after Darwin left the Gal pagos Islands.] 746 (1
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of the sea. — In its middle there 1 Captain Philip Pipon of HMS Tagus sailed through Gal pagos in 1814. 2 Isla Tortuga. 3 Caleta Tagus (Tagus Cove), Isla Isabela (Albemarle Island). 4 Cr ter Beagle (Beagle Crater), Isla Isabela (Albemarle Island). 761 (15
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Galapagos Isd From the Weather Journal kept on the board the Beagle, I find the mean temperature of the water of the Archipelago the Sea to be 68° (67°.9). The number of observations in number were 99, taken every day with some exceptions every day at 8 AM, noon 8 PM; from the 16th of September when we first made to Chatham Isd to the 20th of October, when we finally left the the number Archipelago. — During this time the Beagle was either at anchor in different harbors or moving from Island
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active Volcano is more covered with bare Lava than any other we have seen; belongs to this group is only separated by a narrow arm of the sea: — In Albermale Isd in 2d mound 1 The word yet suggests that he wrote this page before seeing Volc n Wolf (Wolf Volcano) further to the north. He would have seen Volc n Wolf (Wolf Volcano) from the Beagle after leaving Tagus Cove on October 2. 744 (19) vers
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cakes, which sound, when a person walks over them, like plates of Iron.1 1 Darwin apparently borrowed this imagery from James Colnett's book A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape horn… London: W. Bennett, 1798, a copy of which was on board the Beagle. See also Darwin's Galapagos notebook, p. 33b. 756 (10
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. — At Banks Cove the Beagle was anchored within a Crater larger even than one described, but in a much more demolished state. Within the outer ring there is one ( I believe another) very perfect, not very small Crater with a salt lake1 at its bottom elevated a few feet above the sea. — The whole are composed of Volcanic Sandstone: of the same nature, but where I examined, much compacter harder having more the appearance of a true subaqueous deposit. — The highest part is about 700 ft; the 1 Darwin
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Santiago (James Island). The general location of Darwin's camp site is 0°10.036'S, 90°49.468'W 2 The fact that Darwin used the present tense indicates that he wrote these pages about Santiago (James) on land rather than waiting until he was back on board the Beagle. 3 Cerro Cowan, Isla Santiago (James Island). 0°10.656'S, 90°49.798'W 716 (1) vers
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with a few highly eroded craters that look like rounded hills. When the Beagle first entered the archipelago on 15 September Darwin would have seen both San Crist bal (Chatham Island) and Isla Espa ola (Hood Island) from afar. San Crist bal (Chatham Island) has raw lava fields and large numbers of craters and Darwin may have been visualizing San Crist bal (Chatham Island) when he wrote this sentence. 2 Actually the southwestern end of San Crist bal (Chatham Island). 3 Cerro Tijeretas, San Crist
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(6) CD Beagle Letters privately printed 1835 IX [page 1
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 6a Cambs. Phil. Soc. - Beagle Letters (6) CD Beagle Letters privately printed 6
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-bed there is one of gravel, which fills up inequalities in its interior; and above this, and therefore high out of the water, is one of such modern shells that they retain their colour and emit a bad smell when burnt. Patagonia must clearly have lately risen from the water. ________________ MONTE VIDEO, November 12, 1833. I LEFT the Beagle at the Rio Negro, and crossed by land to Buenos Ayres. There is now carrying on a bloody war of extermination against the Indians, by which I was able to make
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me much trouble. I at last got away and joined the Beagle. ________________ E. FALKLAND ISLAND, March, 1834. I HAVE been alarmed by your expression cleaning all the bones, as I am afraid the printed numbers will be lost: the reason I am so anxious they should [page] 1
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received and preserved Darwin's Beagle specimens during the voyage. [page 2
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possessing only front legs. 3 Venomous snakes, including copperheads and water moccasins. 4 Rattlesnakes. 5 Old World venomous snakes. 6 John Milton (1608-1674), poet. Paradise lost 4. 799-800. Darwin recalled in his Autobiography (p. 85): 'Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.' 7 A genus of bryozoans; marine leaf-like collonial animals. [page]
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, accompanying the Beagle, on the first surveying expedition to South America, 1826-1830, and author of Narrative 1. [page] 1
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to burst their envelope and become attached to some basis. I believe that in Zoophites universally, the gemmule produces a single polypus, which afterwards or at the same time grows with its cell, or single articulation. The Beagle left the strait of Magellan in the middle of winter: she found her road out by a wild unfrequented channel; well might Sir J. Nasborough2 call the west coast South Desolation, because it is so desolate a land 1 Marie-Jules-César Lelorgne de Savigny (1777-1851
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Paper Chaffers1 Mr Dring2 Capt King Bathurst Mica Slate Trappean Rocks Mr Blaxland3 Van Diemens Land 1 Edward Main Chaffer, Master on the Beagle. 2 John Edward Dring acting Purser on the Beagle. 3 Probably Gregory Blaxland (1778-1853) or John Blaxland (1769-1845), wealthy landowners and merchants in Australia. [page 4b
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Anon. 1836. [Return of the Beagle and Darwin's observations]. Nautical Magazine 5: 755.
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Anon. 1836. [Return of the Beagle and Darwin's observations]. Nautical Magazine 5: 755. [page] 755 His Majesty's Sloop Beagle, Captain Fitzroy, has arrived and is now lying paid off at Woolwich. The Beagle sailed from England in 1831, for the purpose of surveying the coasts of South America; on which service she has been employed since that time, and on her way home has performed the circuit of the globe. She has successively visited the Galapagos, Tahiti, Tongataboo, New Zealand, Sydney, King
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Humboldt in a similar manner considers the epoch of the sinking down of Western Asia coincides with the elevation Humboldt, Alexander von. 1831. Fragmens de géologie et de climatologie asiatiques. 2 vols. Paris: Gide, A. Phian Delaforest, Delaunay. [on Beagle, signed in both vols., vol. 2 Chas Darwin Monte Video Novem: 1832 ] CUL-DAR.LIB.303 vol. 1 Text vol. 2 Tex
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Chancellor and van Wyhe eds. 'Sydney'. Beagle field notebook. EH1.3 [English Heritage 88202323] Transcribed and edited by Gordon Chancellor, John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker. (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/) [front cover] Sydney Mauritius LT[V] 15 [inside front cover
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 15 Find instances; The whole coast of New Holland shoals much: Dampier remarks on great flats on the NW coast: 8 leagues, from Sydney 90 fathoms La Peyrouse South of Mocha; 19 miles. 65 Fathoms Vide facts in Beechey on NW coast of America off Cape of Good Hope 70 fathoms 20 miles from the shore? Beagle Coast of Brazil? where not rivers (in my Coral paper) 1
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Singularly uniform tint, in bushes the vertical leaves singular effect: pretty birds, magnificent parrots: baited at the Weatherboard;1 walked mile ½ to see Cascade: most magnificent. astounding unique view, small valley not lead to expect such scene: rill of water, 1 'In the middle of the day we baited our horses at a little Inn, called the Weather-board.' Beagle diary, p. 309. [page 9a
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called Clwyd from the wooded plain, could not see the bottom;Reached Black Heath, comfortable as Welsh Inn, old Soldier 15 beds, in a barren mountain 70 60 miles from Sydney:1 Waggon with Wool. Bullocks 1 'The Blackheath is a very comfortable inn, kept by an old Soldier; it reminded me of the small inns in North Wales.' Beagle diary, p. 401. [page 12a
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Mr Browne1 men, very sensitive Scotchman, bad account of men, not reformation, or punishment, not happy but do not quarrel, excepting when drunk, quite impossible to reform. In Vale of Clwyd Granite 2500 ft country improves, trees park like scattered, then covering of pasture, green 1 Andrew Brown(e), farmer and superintendent of Wallerawang. See Nicholas and Nicholas 1989, pp. 44-5 and Beagle diary, p. 401. Darwin carried a letter of introduction from the owner, James Walker. [page 18a
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FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow)
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FitzRoy, R. 1836. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: 311-343. (Communicated by John Barrow) [page] 311 XVII. Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825 1836. Commanded by Captains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy. Communicated by Sir John Barrow, Bart. THE best
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Mr Brayley says he can give me facts respecting lime being heated without parting with Carb. acid — [Darwin cited this in Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America visited during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle'. 2d ed., p. 9: I am much indebted to Mr. E. W. Brayley in having given me the following references to papers on this subject: Faraday, in the 'Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal,' vol. xv. p. 398 .] Mr Malcolmson in Paper on India gives reason for knowing
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2 Lb of common Soap Tobacco Textual notes to the Sydney notebook [IFC] 1.3.] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202323] English Heritage number, not transcribed. 14] added by Nora Barlow, pencil, not transcribed. [37a] R. Macquarie just flowing] added heavy pencil. [IBC] Blackheath...No 1] written perpendicular to the spine in left margin. Wolgan Capita] written upside down from other entries on page. [3b] Capt King...Land] written upside down from other entries on page. [The Beagle field
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