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CUL-DAR5.B5-B16 Note: [Undated] (Geological notes probably of tour in north Wales with Sedgwick) Text Image

. Northern Moelwyn. Eastern side of it a blue slate cleaving line of violence SW. Dip N. Carreg y fran slate NW side to the S a precipice of are hard altered compact [B13v

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CUL-DAR52.F15-F21 Note: [Undated] Fumaria parviflora(?) in C[arbonate] of Amm[onia] 7 to 1000 [application Text Image

Mirabilis seen (alcohol not having been used) after Acetic A. had been added the grain almost or even quite disappeared for they were rendered so transparent particles of starch cd be seen within them. It is evident that A.A. acts powerfully on the grain after C. of am., this agrees with disappearance of the spheres in Geranium.— In lower epidermis cells minute brownish spheres; after acetic acid particles cd be seen in lower epidermis cells, which I think became blue with the iodine; but too

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CUL-DAR74.55-64,66-103 Abstract: [Undated] 19 / [reference incomplete] `Horticultural Transactions' Text Image

(13 vol III p. 171 Sir O. Mosley Description of Corcus laricis or Mealy insect infests the Larch Many larch firs were first infested by this insect but has of late years deserted in some measure the Larch attached itself to the Weymouth pine Silver Fir - Afterwards they migrated to a Cedar of Lebanon. p. 173. Mr Hedges experiments on changes of colour in Hydrangea Hortensis. He found the light brick earth from Hampstead Heath always turned the red flowers of the H. into blue the next year if

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CUL-DAR74.55-64,66-103 Abstract: [Undated] 19 / [reference incomplete] `Horticultural Transactions' Text Image

hardest, the large-brown leaved is the only sort he cultivates.; it is the only one which can be well grown when shallow water is not obtained - instances of variation in wild plant - noticed in Botanical works p. 568 Hydrangea hortensis, according to Mr J. Busch will be turned blue by watering the young plant the summer before with alum water (See former paper on peculiar kinds of soil having this effect. [79

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CUL-DAR84.2.3 Note: [Undated] Youn[g] of both sexes in first perfect plumage alike / N.B by true Text Image

++ Young of both in first perfect plumage not alike. (6) In this case the young male partially resembles the adult male the young female partially resembles the adult female; the adults may be widely definitive gaudy, as with some Humming birds — or moderately conspicuous as Black-bird, stone-chat --- blue solitary thrush This apparently result from male assuming adult plumage early in life or for both sexes having been modified. Cuvier began with adult then gives plumage of young - I must

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CUL-DAR84.2.87-97 Abstract: [Undated] Audubon `[reference incomplete]': vols 1-3, 5; Jerdon `[reference incomplete]': vols 1-3; Gould `[reference incomplete]' vols 1-2 Text Image

intermediate, but more like ♀) 519 P Tanagra æstiva ♀ sometimes almost as red as males caught breeding. Jerdon I. [in margin:] Kingfishers p 222. Halcyon leucocephalus - sexes apparently alike — Y has buff on lower parts edged with brown, the colour generally duller. 228. Kingfisher Y feathers on breast, sides back of neck edged with dusky - colour more dingy. 231. Alcedo Bengalensis in Y bluish-green prevalent tint, in adults pure blue. (

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CUL-DAR85.A61-A62 Abstract: [Undated] Eschricht ': 40-61 Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (1 Eschricht on Hair. (p 40) [in margin:] see. Chpt. I* for References Woolly hair on face eyebrows longer than head-hair at 5th month woolly whiskers eyebrows in female foetus which struck him 41 all woolly hair developed at beginning of 6th month - whole body woolly at end of 6th month shell of ear hairy - same embedded hairs in swine - appears at different periods on different periods of body [right margin:] Blue lines Perhaps Bears on sexual

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CUL-DAR87.163 Abstract: [Undated] Quatrefages, Caton; `Q134, [G]523' Text Image

. 659. ] Caton 8vo (Pamp. 523) p. 5 It is winter-blue breeding coat which is variable - case like birds nuptial plumage. [Caton, John Dean. 1868. American cervus: paper read before the Ottawa Academy of Natural Sciences, May 21, 1868. Ottawa, Illinois: Osman and Hapeman. (from: Transactions of the Ottawa Academy of Natural Sciences .) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 523] PDF Descent 2d ed., p. 536, n27: 'Ottawa Academy of Sciences,' May, 21, 1868, pp. 3, 5. ] (Used

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CUL-DAR40.100-101 Note: [ny].02.12 Limestone Quarry — Stratified dip about 50° — occasional pebbles of Text Image

X12 Blue Limestone in old formation 12-15 ft above present high water — Before However, the low land had formed Harbor considerable fetch — Yet [sketch of a step terrace] these facts inclined me to believe, — trifling rise — Mr F. — oysters have all disappeared within 2 years Mem. Ascidia in Chiloe — onlyknown with edible animals — Earthquakes Centre of Island lofty greenstone — divided by valley of the Derwent — On North side grand formation of limestone some conglomerate, hard clay slate we

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CUL-DAR40.100-101 Note: [ny].02.12 Limestone Quarry — Stratified dip about 50° — occasional pebbles of Text Image

(X13 in Government domain = limestone foot of M. Wellington opposite side to my ascent — mass of strata occurring with organic strata — Blue Blackish brown compact crystalline; occurs with slaty impure limestone — Organic remains chiefly Terebratula impressions of a Pecten beds composed of small oysters, like at Isd of Maria — Dendritic manganese — Corallines chiefly occur in the siliceous strata. — Stratification not quite regular — very rare pebble — uneven stratum of a white pulverulent

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CUL-DAR46.2.A46 Note: [Undated] List of seeds gummed on paper Text Image

wonder [do] Canterbury Dw [do] Scarlet Blossom Bean Early mazagan Bean White blossomed [do] Windsor [do] Long Pod [do] Champion of England Marrow Pea Victoria [do] Grt. Britain [do] Woodford Green [do] Ringwood [do] Danecroft — Peas — Warren Emperor [do] Queen of Dw [do] Dwf Blue Knight [do] Incomparable Marrows Scimitar [do

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CUL-DAR46.2.A47 Note: [Undated] Seeds sown by Brooks [vegetables] Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [47] Seed sown by Brooks Peas Burbridges Eclipse 1 Early Emperor 2 Scimitar marrows 3 Dwarf Blue Knight 4 —white — 5 Incomparable marrow 6 Beans x Early mazagan 1 x Long Pod 2 x Windsor Beans 3 French Beans Dwarf x Cream Dwarf 1 x Canterbury Dwarfs 2 Spinach x Spring 1 x Winter 2 x Whyte, Dark Beet x Red Beet x Silver Beet Early Scarlet Radish Mixed Turnip Radish Lettuce Black-seeded Brown Cos. L. London large white Cos Mixed Cabbage Lettuce Endive x

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CUL-DAR59.1.87-88 Note: [Undated] [Pinguicula: summary of notes numbered pp. 9-19] Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (1 p. 9. Apex never curved to the base. ― Big fragments of Blue-bottle flies after 48h began to unfold p. 10 — surface washed after 24° — unfolding complete 48h. ― will not react soon. p 10 large fragment of fly — well inflected after 24° — almost completely unfolded after 48° p. 11. Transmission longitudinally in both direction for .13 of inch. ― large pieces of meat. — after 48° much unfolded, pushed 1/15 of an inch or .0666. p. 12 pushed .11

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CUL-DAR69.B7 Abstract: [Undated] Sachs `Traité de Bot': 55-154, 771-1037 Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [B7] Sachs Traite de Bot p 55 71} cotyledon of bean contain protoplasm. from Pinguicula exper When I speak of spheres within spheres, the latter X are probably vascular. Aggregation Blue Tendrils I think all these look in English Edition p. 63 coloured protoplasm. 153 paper on glands in Annales des Sc. Nat. 5th series XIV 1871: M. Martinet. 154 generally on glands, but nothing that much concerns me. 771, 2 774 850 855 851 1035 1036} Action of Heat

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CUL-DAR72.117-151 Abstract: [Undated] [reference incomplete] `Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Zoologie' 3s Text Image

the whole organisation than in the Vertebrata. Consequently Also when an organ loses its importance physiologique it also loses the fixity of structure, which is always found in very important organs.— And then he goes on to show that great variation difference in main [arter…] of Mollusca.— But the train of reasoning is false — later formed organs have varied more lately are therefore still variable Tom 8 p. 239. Dr. Sichel says he has observed for 20 years that cats perfectly white with blue

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CUL-DAR73.92 Abstract: [Undated] Bell J.W.S; British Association reports `Phytologist' 4: 758; 779, 1144 Text Image

Darwin Online =92 p. 758. The primrose is sometimes met with on a sheltered bank, even during the most inclement frost, in flower, but the cowslip we look upon as a more transient visitor of warm spring weather. p. 779. Report Brit. Assoc. 22d meeting. Dr Gladstone on coloured media affecting growth of plants. — flowers time of flowering not affected, but roots of Hyacinth were affected. — greatest growth in white light next greatest under Blue glass. — Which under the yellow most sturdy in

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CUL-DAR74.149-151 Abstract: [Undated] 22 bis / Herbert `Hort Journal' 1: 45 Text Image

, according to Babington on dry pastures with white, blue red flowers, - Dr. H saw it in alluvial very moist meadows near sea at Zante near Trieste— most vigorously greater heat allows it to endure more water than with us. (Q) [in margin:] Because change greater? p. 46 plants wh are found only in particular situations improve under cultivation thinks more so than the widely dispersed plants. Concludes from former case that particular soils or subsoils are not necessary - that they succeed because

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CUL-DAR84.2.207 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Monograph of Trochilidae' [general] Text Image

✔ Eulampis jugularis sexes quite alike whole upper surface black tail-covert light green. contrasting with greenish black tail - wings glittering green - Throat purple - must be very conspicuous on nest [Cited in Descent 2: 168, n12: For instance, the female Eupetomena macroura has the head and tail dark blue with reddish loins; the female Lampornis porphyrurus is blackish-green on the upper surface, with the lores and sides of the throat crimson; the female Eulampis jugularis has the top of

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CUL-DAR29.3.31-33 Note: [Undated] [molluscs in spirits, including land slugs and snails, and nudibranchs, and insects not in spirits] Text Image

— common under stones 1180 x — Vaginulus Valdivia p. 172. Back of page 1285 x Onchidium. Galapagos Arch. p. 322 14 Aplysia St Jago 92 Doris do (same as 52) length 3.5/10 — indigo-blue 1047 Vaginulus Valparaiso (same as 1027) p. 272 861 x Sigaretus Tierra del Fuego p. 218 (Pleurobranchus) 1106x Nudibranch (?) Chonos. Archipelago. S. of Chiloe v. p. 291 Nov. Genus?} (Thecucera) 87 x Doris St Jago p. 9. 264 o Nudibranch (nov-gen?) Rio de Janeiro p. 46 (Polycera) 1277 x Onchidium Galapagos Arch. p. 321

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CUL-DAR72.71-72 Abstract: [Undated] [reference incomplete] `Poultry Chronicle' vols 1-3 Text Image

necessary with those who keep a stock of fowls at different stations. 29 'The Poultry Chronicle,' 1854, vol. i. p. 43. ] 55 Description of Ptarmigans F O 64 Loss of secondary male characters not accompanied by infertility. Mem. Lucanidae S (Q) 101 Case of Blue fowl from cross breeding true for generations (mem Kohlreuter Gaertner on some Hybrid Plant do [Variation 1: 97: The editor of the 'Poultry Chronicle'31 bred some bluish fowls from a black Spanish cock and a Malay hen; and these remained

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CUL-DAR81.99 Note: [ny].03.22 Mr A Butler / Aricoris epitus (Butterfly) male black glassed with Blue Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [99] B. Mus. March 22 Mr A. Butler Aricoris Epitus (Butterfly) male black glassed with Blue with ant wings more pointed post. wings more produced then in ♀which is coloured yellow or orange black. Mr. B says greatest difference which has known as shape of sexes

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CUL-DAR85.B103 Note: [ny].03.22 Tragopan temminckii has blue wattle of intense colour Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [B103] Mar 22. Zoolog. Gardens. Tragopan temminckii has blue wattle of intense colour, during breeding season but at no other time only when courting female, injects this with blood (like wattle of turkey) it forms 2 horns which project on each side of the splendid top knot, forms a deep descending tappet in front. When I asked him whether it was polygamous he answered I shd think so from its gorgeous colours , this shews his belief in the connection

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CUL-DAR60.1.83 Note: [ny].05.03--[ny].05.09 Phosphate of Lime pure white powder precipitated [application also of Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [83] Ph. of Lime May 5 8° A. m. All specs same state May 6' 8° A. m. all 3 Blue-Heads — most closely inflected — the secretion from some outlying tent. (now acid) which have not touched the Ph. — but the secretion on the lime not acid in one leaf there is still a drop. ― 7th. 8° do do. — secretion on disc not acid— leaves look flabby — an extra leaf on which the some secretion had run now inflected also flabby. 8° all closely inflected, dry — one dead

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CUL-DAR60.1.83 Note: [ny].05.03--[ny].05.09 Phosphate of Lime pure white powder precipitated [application also of Text Image

— Phosphate moistened with saliva Jun May 1. 8° 10; — one with lamina sub-inflected — The other with many tentacles inflected — May 2d Both with same somewhat inflected. May 4' same state ― 6th — one leaf inflected seems killed — the other beginning to expand 7th 1 quite dead inflected — the other half expanded, but seems drying (z) (Back) (8th do) (9th dead almost) The Phosphate was at 2 ends of disc. it was pretty how tentacles directed to these 2 points May 3d 8° 15' — 2 sticks Blue Heads— 3 leaves

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CUL-DAR46.2.A20-A21 Note: [ny].06.18--[ny].07.20 8 sub-vars of new French paeony-flowered Aster imported [comments on Text Image

striped 5 carmine with white quilled 6 Pale pink with white striped} perhaps a shade browner then do 7 Pale read quilled 8 Plae blue striped 9 Violet quilled} I think rather browner, perhaps ripe 10 violet with white stripe 11 Sky blue quilled} hardly different from 5 6 12 Sky blue with white quilled 13 Flesh colour quilled 14 Pink with white quilled} whiter perhaps a shade narrower 15 Rose colour striped} white as last, perhaps a shade broader shorter 16 Ultra-marine quilled 17 Crimson quilled 18

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CUL-DAR46.2.A20-A21 Note: [ny].06.18--[ny].07.20 8 sub-vars of new French paeony-flowered Aster imported [comments on Text Image

list, specially last, have decidedly smaller much lighter coloured seeds: but I almost suspect, the last are bad.— Copper Red, Milk White (these 2 blackest seeds); Reddish=White; Pale Blue; Ask Grey; Dark Blue; Lilac; Flesh Colour. [A21v

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CUL-DAR68.66 Note: [ny].07.12--[ny].07.18 Sea-kale / Salt / 8h 45 2 spots cleaned with sponge in water at 90° & Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [66] Sea Kale Salt. July 12th 8° 45. 2 spots cleaned with sponge in water at 90° drops of salt-water (1 verm dot) 2 other drops on bloom 2. verm. spot. July 15th 8° 30' Blue spot cleaned rubbed very slightly small space with pumice left it to dry July 18th 8° 30' A.m. — Large quite rotted on space with a hole clean through in one place; in the 2d place a mark which I suspect if decay) (19th mark much plainer ) decayed.) Where drops of salt-water lay

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CUL-DAR68.122 Note: [ny].07.20--[ny].07.31 Averrhoa / Leaflets silvery both sides removed by Ether but surface still Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [122] Averrhoa Leaflets silvery both sides; removed by Ether, but surface still repellent. July 20th a good not very young leaf waved for 1' in water 88°-87 silver partially removed on upper surface; not at all on lower. The same leaf waved for additional 1' in water 90°-89° lost almost all silver on upper surface; lower surface silver gone only near midrib. July 21. 10° 45' two uppermost lateral leaflets (blac blue mark (a) on board) with water 87

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CUL-DAR68.140-151 Note: [ny].08.00--[ny].09.00 [experiments on effects of attempted removal of bloom] Text Image

Acacia cultriformis Aug 13' 11° 30' 4 phyllodia leaves cleaned both sides. Blue dot Sept 1 I think a shade drier Eucalyptus sp. of which I cleaned squirted leaves. Aug 13 11° 30' 5 leaves cleaned both sides Blue dots. Sept 13th no difference in any of the leave

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CUL-DAR68.140-151 Note: [ny].08.00--[ny].09.00 [experiments on effects of attempted removal of bloom] Text Image

Greenhouse Sedum. Aug. 10' 11° Right side of several leaves cleaned both surfaces — old youngish— (The 2 leaves with black worsted where had drops on them not cleaned—) The cleaned leaves marked on tips with prussian blue. Hung up dry Aug 31. right-side of 1 old leaf rather more discoloured Aug 16' 9° 30 cleaned some leaves of branch blue dot put with cut-off end to stand in sol. of corrosive cultimate. [145

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CUL-DAR68.140-151 Note: [ny].08.00--[ny].09.00 [experiments on effects of attempted removal of bloom] Text Image

Carnation from greenhouse Young shoot. Aug 10 11° — one leaf cleaned on both sides, marked with blue on top, hung up to dry. — (Aug 29' no difference in the 2 sets) do— marked done in same manner to stand in water. Sept 17th no clear difference in the two sets of leaves [143

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CUL-DAR68.155 Note: [ny].08.00--[ny].10.00 Onion / Iris — broad-leaved Blue-flowered Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [155] Onion Aug. 28th 5° P.m. — 2 central leaves cleaned all round — bulb in water. — Sept 18' no difference in rate of decay Iris — broad-leaved Blue-flowered outer sides both surfaces of 3 leaves Black wool Aug 29th 5° Oct 18th no clear differenc

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CUL-DAR68.64-65 Note: [ny].07.12--[ny].08.07 Cabbages / Salt / 8h 30 — cleaned with sponge & water at 90° 2 spots & Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (A Cabbages Salt. July 12th 8° 30' — cleaned with sponge water at 90° 2 spots put on sea-water. 1 vermilion spot Also 2 drops on bloom these remained spherical. 2 Verm. dots. July 15th 8° 30' cleaned rubbed very slightly small space with pumice left it to dry Blue spot July 18. 8° 30' neither space where salt-water lay seem affected, but more protuberant than they were. — Where bloom not removed, salt-water no effect. (July 18th 8° 30 Blue spot, not

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CUL-DAR68.72 Note: [ny].07.27--[ny].08.02 Eryngium Sea-Holly / 8h 45 sponged with tepid water 10 leaflets Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [72] Eryngium Sea-Holly July 27th 9° 8° 45. sponged with tepid water 10 leaflets placed salt-water on 5 pure water on 5, but I fear water in some cases run together. Salt- vermilion Pure water — Blue. July 2' Plant seem dying. — (Aug 2d dead) (Eryngium both surfaces of leaves silvery in water but this is removed by tepid sponge

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CUL-DAR60.1.15-23 Note: [ny].07.17--[ny].08.01 Drosera round-leaved [rotundifolia] Text Image

Hairs I look at now as certain, though in one case it was not very effective July 22d. 9. 45 Single blue 18th 10 double blue Thread 19. 11° 30' the bits of sticks are now quite perfectly loose, put on 9° 50' bits of flies. 5. 45 these bits of flies now partially embraced by Hairs: July 22d 7° 30' A m.— now well embraced by all central hairs some few marginal ones July 22d. 10 A. m. Rush in loop fly on one side of leaf 5. 45 well embraced on one side of leaf alone 22d 10 A.m. red blue thread.— leaf

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CUL-DAR68.67-69 Note: [ny].07.12--[ny].08.01 Marine Grass — Salt-water / 9h 1 leaf cleaned with salt water Text Image

absorption: I now 4° 50' (26th) cleaned with sponge water about 80 middle portion of blue green blade on same culm immersed. (This experiment was in my study) July 29th 8° The leaves now look rather yellowish injured ― 30th 8° — All the leaves are now yellowish-green injured. The injury commences at apex not at the cut off end. I can see no difference between the hoary green leaves. The cleaned leaf which was submerged on the 26th is as much injured as the uncleaned which was submerged on the

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CUL-DAR68.67-69 Note: [ny].07.12--[ny].08.01 Marine Grass — Salt-water / 9h 1 leaf cleaned with salt water Text Image

Triticum marine var. July 26th 11° A. m. sponged 3 blue blades 3 green blades pinned on sticks put on drop of salt water. N.B that nearest leaves were too near pin-holes when first drop put on. At 3° ie after 4 hours 1 green leaf was strongly involuted I suppose injured. July 29th several leaves seem yellower injured ― 30th 9° — 4 of the leaves badly injured — 2 not so as yet, but the bloom did not seem to have been well cleaned. I cannot perceive any difference in the degree to which the

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CUL-DAR60.1.15-23 Note: [ny].07.17--[ny].08.01 Drosera round-leaved [rotundifolia] Text Image

hairs near tail 18th— 10 Am. Blue-Thread — a bit of paper, dry stick, quill moss— ― 10°. 30' Red Thread — raw meat 11° 30' many hairs sucking ― 11°. 30' (red) irritation 3° Pm Hairs closed in no more irritation middle hairs all inflexed some of Flies put in on 17' were found dead, some were killed, so that hardly kicked — one was naturally caught by feet so kicked long — no difference in result so not irritation — I see now extreme hair is all turned in at least at ∟ angle (

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CUL-DAR60.1.15-23 Note: [ny].07.17--[ny].08.01 Drosera round-leaved [rotundifolia] Text Image

Hair bent. 12 30' several hairs turned in (4. 30 all central hairs inflected) 12 35 do long Thread (moth specn not one hair crooked.) in 20' some hairs turned in (4°30' all hairs turned in, even most of marginal hairs—) 11°. 27' 23 (double blue-thread) bit of dry then wetted stick Hairs straight 12° 30' several Hairs turned in many hairs inflected. July 21'. 3 P.m almost all hairs f reflexed again. — so with all stick put in on 18th. 11. 27 (three red Thread) bit of beef on large old leaf Hairs

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CUL-DAR60.1.15-23 Note: [ny].07.17--[ny].08.01 Drosera round-leaved [rotundifolia] Text Image

with mold. 25. 1˚ Double rush zinc put on bit of sponge The flies seem quite tender decayed after being put on.— 26' 10. 30 red blue 3d fly put on. 27' caught fly very imperfectly Gamboge smashed fly made leaf flaccid — indigo no effect. 28' Hair on one side pretty well closed in Hairs which had collapsed for. (I think) 2 days over bit of sponge, were nearly all red; a few were slightly mottled; but red colour not much broken up.─ [21v

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CUL-DAR68.81 Note: [ny].08.12--[ny].08.30 Pancratium littorale [application of salt water] Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [81] Pancratium littorale Aug 12th 9° A.m. — Pinned down 3 leaves (one near one under side) cleaned spaces put on drops of salt water (vermilion) pure water Blue) Aug 26th. In one place on nearest leaf where salt-water has lain surface oddly clouded mid-rib yellowish. — F. W. no injury Aug 30. The leaf with salt on under side I think light affected. The 2 others with salt the 3 with fresh not in the least affected at present— All 3 leaves black wool

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CUL-DAR68.131 Note: [ny].08.12--[ny].08.30 Nelumbium esculentum / a little stream of water at 90° makes a temporary Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [131] Aug. 12th morning 9° Nelumbium esculentum A str little stream of water at 90° makes a temporary cloud. — clean whole 1/2 leaf fixed leaf so that water rest in middle alone on part of cleaned uncleaned side. Also cleaned 1/2 of 2 other leaves with cracked petioles left dry marked with black wool. the side with Blue. 14th Augt (examined surface of leaf, covered with closely packed conical very minute points, which are projection of epidermic cells

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CUL-DAR27.1.F12 Note: [ny].09.00--[ny].10.00 [concerning floating in sea-water of seeds of named species] Text Image

on July 22d. I placed in salt-water Pods of Blue Bell, Geranium, Chervil Vetch, Ervum, Dock, Geum, Lolium Ajuga all were sunk in 21 days most were gone in 10 or 14 days. Aug 12th put in salt water 1 Arrhenatherum 2 Common Plantago, 3 Columbine, 4 Mahonia. After 8 days, Columbine had sunk, Sept 3d. i e in 22 days all sunk. 13 Plants on this side of Page 21 34 Plants in all trie

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CUL-DAR55.124-133 Note: [ny].08.03--[ny].09.08 [Drosera?] [application of sugar, carbonate of ammonia, phosphate of Text Image

Aug 4th — put on at 10° 39' minute drop of sol. of sugar (2 gr to 1 oz) on 7 glands— added particles of meat glass at 10° 59' (ie after 20') 11° 3' 2 meat meats 1 blue-glass have curved well in) 12° 3 other glands with meat 1 with blue glass have not curved in; as leaf is so active, I think this retardation must be due to sugar. 2° 5' At last 2 latter glands with meat, 1 with blue glass have curved in a little, but not the one last with meat: I remember that I put a good deal of the sol of

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CUL-DAR60.1.30-33 Note: [ny].09.02--[ny].09.08 8h 53 drop of distilled water (- not sunshine) Umber marginal round & Text Image

Sept 8th. Keston Specn 10. 10 All good open specn.— Sticks marked Blue Carb of Amm 2 gr to 3 oz of water day cloudy [data not transcribed] Carb of Amm 2 gr to 3 oz of water 10° 12/ Sticks white [8v

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CUL-DAR60.1.30-33 Note: [ny].09.02--[ny].09.08 8h 53 drop of distilled water (- not sunshine) Umber marginal round & Text Image

11° 5' Sept 5th (after an hour or two exposure to sun) (These plants are now recovered, which had water, now have c. of ammonia Blue O Carb of Am. 2 gr to 4. oz 2 hair N.NE. near margin inflected 12°. 5' no marked effect on any — good sunshine all time. 1. 5. one long-headed on right side considerably arched over. 2. 5 not much change, but last hour cloudy.— 3 5— do last hour quite cloudy 4 5 do do 6. — / do. do Blue (2) all straight (most of long-headed reflexed withered) 1°. 5' one long

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CUL-DAR60.1.30-33 Note: [ny].09.02--[ny].09.08 8h 53 drop of distilled water (- not sunshine) Umber marginal round & Text Image

at 8. 30 Red 2 do 3° 30' no effect very small leaf Sept 4th. 5° 45' P.m. Hairs all stra Red 3. do 3° 30' three or four long marginal hairs inflected — all were straight.— Sept 4th 5°. 45' every hair now again straight expanded Blue O Plain water Car. of amm 2 gr to 4 oz distilled Plain water (central hair on right side a little inflected) 1.P.m 1 or 2 long marginal hairs inflected Blue 2 central hair on left side a little inflected Blue 3 2 long-headed inflected Carbonate of Ammonia Experiments

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CUL-DAR60.1.30-33 Note: [ny].09.02--[ny].09.08 8h 53 drop of distilled water (- not sunshine) Umber marginal round & Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (3 Sept 2d. 8°. 53' drop of distilled water (not sunshine) Umber marginal round long-headed Hairs all straight 10. 18 sucked off water (rendered viscid) Wall [illeg] Pot 10°. 35' 2 gr. to 8 oz water (strictly 1 gr to 4 oz) good large drop. 11° no clear effect 11°. 35' no clear effect 2°. 15' no effect (Sept 2d) Sept 2d 8° 53' Drop of distilled water (not in sunshine) Blue — 2 or 3 hairs at ∠ on left at all other hairs round long-headed all straight 10

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CUL-DAR60.1.131-132 Note: [ny].09.11--[ny].09.16 Drosera filiformis from Kew Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [131] Drosera filiformis from Kew A Sept 11. 8° 10' put on fragments of flies at tip of leaves, but these not absolutely perfect at tip 8°. 15. above black streak (looking at back on left hand) routed a good many tentacles. — no effect. 8°. 25' numerous bits of blue glass, cork, cinders, thread gold-leaf on 2 leaves. In about 1° on one leaf 3 bits of cork 1 thread moved in. — 11° 40 on other leaf 2 cork, 1 cinder a Blue-glass Leaf consist of solid

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CUL-DAR60.1.131-132 Note: [ny].09.11--[ny].09.16 Drosera filiformis from Kew Text Image

D. filiformis. Sept 16. 8° 43' routed above blue mark. Sept 16 8° 45' put on 2 young vigorous leaves with tips just perceptibly inrolled, but quite straight beneath, 2 fragments of flies — (Glands keep viscid for long time.) (One of the old leaves now has apex curved at ∟' above fly but glands seems are dry has not enclosed fly.) (Viscid matter extremely viscid) Sept 18th 8 A.m. I can now see that the leaf is slightly bent under at exact point where the fragment of fly lays; so I presume under

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CUL-DAR60.1.145 Note: [ny].09.12--[ny].09.14 D[rosera] anglica / Plain stick — pierced midrib & put bit of Harry Text Image

see that fly was placed above the cut in midrib Sept 15th 8° A m. same state Sept 12' 9° 30 3 leaves with bits of Hairy L. legs at very base of leaves, uninjured not cut Blue Sticks XX Sept 13th. 8° 15 tops of all 3 finely curved over the fly at base. Red Sticks no black 2 of them pricked in about midrib very with very fine needle cd not have cut through midrib — (Sept 13th 8° 15 no effect) (Sept 14th 8° no effect) (Sept 15th 8° no effect) Effects of cutting mid-rib Lines of difference of

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CUL-DAR60.1.136-137 Note: [ny].09.16 D[rosera] capensis (Kew) / Limb of leaf elongated narrowing gradually Text Image

D. Capensis Th minute drops of N. of Ammonia 1 gr to 12 oz in 2°. 30' caused one or two tentacles to be slightly inflected Put on 2 atoms of cork, of blue glass cinders: the cork in 2°. 30' caused decided inflection — the others never moved. Sept 16th 9°. A.m. put squashed fly on the foliaceous pedicel. Sept 17' no effect. — Sept 18th do. Last Sept 16th 9° 10 put 1/2 a fly on middle of leaf.— at 5° In few hour the lateral tentacles on both edges curved in touched the fly. At 5° 15 leaf a

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CUL-DAR60.1.74 Note: [ny].09.20--[ny].09.22 Gelatine or Isinglass 4 gr to 4 oz distilled water Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 74 Sept. 20th Gelatine or Isinglass 4 gr to 4 oz distilled water (Blue card) 3.45 I spec 21st 5 P.M. ineffect in 25 (5 PM 21 — Put on stony gelatine 22d 9 leaf laterally much strongly inflected.) 2 spec 21st 8.45 in 18 one or two long-headed were foot stalk little inflected. — 5 P.M no clear effect.— Put on strong gelatine 22nd 9 AM 16 strongly inflected — 3 specs do. effect do. — 21 5 P.M no effect.— 22nd 9 A.M. no effect 4 do several footstalks

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Ph. of Lime May 5 8° A. m. All specs same state May 6' 8° A. m. all 3 Blue-Heads — most closely inflected — the secretion from some outlying tent. (now acid) which have not touched the Ph. — but the secretion on the lime not acid in one leaf there is still a drop. ― 7th. 8° do do. — secretion on disc not acid— leaves look flabby — an extra leaf on which the some secretion had run now inflected also flabby. 8° all closely inflected, dry — one dead. 9th all 4 almost dead. — some never recover (z

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— Phosphate moistened with saliva Jun May 1. 8° 10; — one with lamina sub-inflected — The other with many tentacles inflected — May 2d Both with same somewhat inflected. May 4' same state ― 6th — one leaf inflected seems killed — the other beginning to expand 7th 1 quite dead inflected — the other half expanded, but seems drying (z) (Back) (8th do) (9th dead almost) The Phosphate was at 2 ends of disc. it was pretty how tentacles directed to these 2 points May 3d 8° 15' — 2 sticks Blue Heads— 3 leaves

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CUL-DAR46.2.A27-A28 Note: [ny].10.02 [table of characteristics of fruit and stone of plum varieties] Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [A27] Name Fruit Stone Orleans Plums spherical slightly oblate transverse diameter 1.4. red. length .75 breadth .55x.35 one side edge with broad ridges. ovate Washington spherical considerably oblate 1.7. very didymous, reddish? unripe oval. one edge much flattened broad. length .87 breadth .6 x .44 Blue Gage spherical slightly oblate 1.35 dark purple ovate rather dark coloured edges furrowed medial ridges length .55 Breadth .43x .32 Harvests slightly

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CUL-DAR60.1.111 Note: [ny].10.04 8h 55 Boiled for several minutes 2 gr of Edible Swallows Nest from Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 111 Oct 4th 8.55 Boiled for several minutes 2 gr of Edible Swallows Nest from China in 1 oz of water — much softened c portion dissolved put 1.2 [illeg] drops on 3 leaves Blue-paper heads on some tentacles (the latter inflated in 2 or 3 minutes) (in 5' several tentacles inflated) (9.15 very considerable inlfation in all 3 leaves) (10.30 plenty of inflation) (11.05 all but extreme marginal in one leaf all the 2 or 3 outer rows closely inflected. N B I

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CUL-DAR60.1.119-120 Note: [ny].11.03 Fibro-cartilage from foot joint of Sheep / The joint had been slightly Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [119] Fibro- (Cartilage from foot joint of Sheep. The joint had been slightly roasted, but cartilage quite white, translucent, extremely tough rather hard. Can D. digest it!! Nov. 1' 8° 20': 3. Sticks with blue Heads Cubes of 1/20th. of an inch put on with saliva. Leaves pale small in Hot-House (12° 20' a good deal of inflection — one leaf has quite embraced the cube.) (4° P.m. 2 leaves with laminæ inflected) (Nov. 2' 8° Am same state (2 of leaves

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A854.01 Beagle Library: Southey, Robert. 1810-19. History of Brazil. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Volume 1. Text

CHAP. X. 1572. Noticias. MSS. 1. 40. Adorno's expedition upon the same secret. Noticias. MSS. 1. 37. S.Vasc. C.C. 3. 51. land, sometimes by water, found rocks, in which were stones of a colour between green and blue, which they supposed to be turquoises: the natives told them, that on the top of these rocks others were found of brighter colour; and some, which it was thought, from their description, must have contained gold. At the foot of a woody mountain, they found an emerald and a sapphire

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CHAP. III. 1536. The Agaces. Schmidel. 22. 19. The first service in which the Carios were employed, was in building a fort of wood, earth, and stones, to secure their own subjection. They then offered to assist the Spaniards against the Agaces15, .. a way of asking assistance from them against an old enemy. The Agaces were a tribe of hunters and fishers, who painted their skin with an indelible blue die, extracted from a root. Their settlements were about thirty leagues lower down the stream

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him: they were in cotton shirts without sleeves, blue baize breeches, and hats made of feathers; and kneeling down before him they besought his blessing, as if he had been a Bishop. Manoel Felix blessed them one after another as they succeeded, till after nearly an hour his arm was weary with this unusual exercise, and he desired that they might proceed to the Reduction. Upon this they formed a lane for him, and as soon as he ascended the bank, his heart, he says, leapt at the sight of cattle

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costume, and his arms were a pocket-pistol, a silver-hilted sword, and the formidable faca de ponte, or knife of all work, inlaid with gold and silver. Matheos Correa, whom he desired to accompany him, wore a coat of blue cloth embroidered with silver. If such details are less dignified than the descriptions of chivalrous or oriental costume, they are not less characteristic. They took with them two Negroes armed with muskets and knives, and swords which they wore round the neck. The landing place

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they wrought the figures of animals, .. a waste of ingenuity, for the use of these webs was to wrap round them at night, when the season required it. Both sexes stained themselves from the neck to the knees with a blue die, which they laid on in such exquisite pattern-work, that a German, who saw them, doubted whether the best artist in Germany could have surpassed the nicety and intricacy of the design. They had two harvests in the year. The cricket infested them also, and they also kept ducks

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CHAP. VIII. Stade. p. 2. c. 17. Noticias. MSS. 2. 44. De Lery. c. 8. French, and were then eagerly demanded. Sometimes they let it flow loose, more frequently tied it close to the root in one or two huge tails, like a French postilion's. They painted their cheeks in red, blue, and yellow, beginning with a spot in the middle, and drawing a spiral line till the whole side of the face was covered: this however was less splendid than the skin and bright orange-coloured plumage of the Toucan's

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and Gros-Bois, and Francis, Sieur de Rasilly and des Aumelles, were the persons who associated with him. The Queen appointed them by patent Lieutenants General for the most Christian King, in the West Indies and territories of Brazil. She gave them a splendid flag, having the arms of France upon a ground of celestial blue, with a ship for a device, herself standing at the helm, and her son at the prow, with an olive branch which he had received from her hand; the motto Tanti Dux f mina facti

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, .. a long cloth, with a slit in the middle, through which the head is put; the two halves then fall before and behind to a convenient length, and the sides being open, the arms are left unimpeded. In the Reductions these were made of cotton; the common people wore them of one colour, and each man was provided with a change; for persons in office, they were woven with red or blue stripes. The women, when they appeared at church, and other public occasions, were covered from head to foot with a

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idol in much repute for miracles. It was easily added, that a Lady clothed in celestial blue had appeared to the child and saved him, and so he himself had been taught. For this reason he was especially devoted to the Virgin, and the last words which he uttered were to this effect: Lady, I know of a truth that you will restore to me the eternal happiness which at the age of five I was going to possess. Mother of Mercy, and Advocate of Sinners, you robbed me of the Kingdom of Heaven then, in

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the figures of various birds, and was to be gilt when finished. A golden pix had been sent from Lima as the offering of some devout persons; its value was three thousand five hundred pieces of silver. Manoel Felix, who was wanting neither in devotion nor in liberality, presented for the service of the altar a large piece of blue taffeta, and a smaller one, of the richest brocade which had ever reached the mines of Mato Grosso. The Jesuit accepted the gift, and then opening the Sacristy shewed him

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CHAP. XXXVII. 1742. desirous that such visits should be repeated, and thought it prudent to make a display of their strength. On the second morning, therefore, after the guests had breakfasted upon chocolate and spunge cake, and after mass had been performed, fourscore horsemen were exercised in the great square before the Church. They were drest in cotton shirts which had been ornamented with some labour, and large trowsers of blue baize; their weapon was the macana; they had cotton horse

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deluded; yet notwithstanding their often conference with him, they fear and hate him much, and say that he is naught: and not without great reason, for he will oftentimes, to their great terror, beat them black and blue. Voyage to Guiana. Harl. Misc. vol. 3, p. 188. 19. The heroic children of Loyola, p. 332.] P. Manuel Rodriguez notices in his Indice Chronologico, that Loyola was born in the year before the New World was discovered. Este mesmo a o de 91, nacio en Cantabria, San Ignacio de Loyola

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A787.02 Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1811. Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain. 2 vols. John Black, trans. New York: I. Riley. vol. 2. Text

water of the Rio Gila to the town. The whole surrounding plain is covered with broken earthen pitchers and pots, prettily painted in white, red, and blue. We also find amidst these fragments of Mexican stone-ware pieces of obsidian (itztli); a very curious phenomenon, because it proves that the Aztecs passed through some unknown northern country which contains this volcanic substance, and that it was not the abundance of obsidian in New Spain which suggested the idea of razors and arms of

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constantly serene and of a deep blue, and without a cloud; and should any clouds appear for a moment at the setting of the sun, they display the most beautiful shades of violet, purple, and green. All those who had ever been in California (and I have seen many in New Spain) preserved the recollection of the extraordinary beauty of this phenomenon, which depends on a particular state of the vesicular vapour, and the purity of the air in these climates. No where could an astronomer find a more

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majestic aspect to the Mexican volcanoes. The contours of their summits, covered with eternal snow, appear so much the more marked, as the air through which the eye receives the rays is more rare and transparent. The snow is of a most extraordinary brilliancy, particularly when it descends from a sky of which the blue is always deeper than that of the sky which we see from our plains of the temperate zone. The observer finds himself, in the city of Mexico, in a stratum of air, whose barometrical

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palpable, I have formed, according to exact scales, the drawings in the last plate. A red parallelogram which serves for the base, represents the surface of the mother countries; and a blue parallelogram which reposes on the base, indicates the area of the Spanish and English possessions in America and Asia. These views, similar to those of M. Playfair, have something fearful in them, particularly when we fix our eyes on the grand catastrophe represented in the fourth figure, of which- the memory

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water is at first of a grayish-blue colour, and contains in suspension black oxyd of mercury, and small globules of native mercury and amalgamation of silver. This metallic mixture gradually precipitates, and the water becomes limpid. It can neither dissolve the oxyd of mercury nor the muriate of mercury, which is one of the most insoluble salts which we know. The mules are very fond of this water, because it contains a little muriate of soda in dissolution. In speaking of the progress of the

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A6566.11 Book: Kerr, Robert. 1811-1824. A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present times. 18 vols. London: W. Blackwood and T. Cadell. Text

sent with him some coarse blue baize and some sugar, to distribute among the women. On seeing our boat ready to put off, the king was for accompanying her in his bark-log, but I persuaded him to go in the boat, with which he seemed to be much gratified. The remainder of the day was spent with our wild visitors, who behaved in general very quietly. The officer returned with an account of having been very civilly received, and we prepared our casks for being sent ashore next morning. Although, at

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-beam, and they called out that they saw land also a great way to the windward. I immediately brought to, and sounded; we had still fifty-two fathom, but I thought that we were embayed, and rather wished than hoped that we should get clear before night. We made sail and steered E.S.E. the land still having the same appearance, and the hills looking blue, as they generally do at a little distance in dark rainy weather, and now many of the people said that they saw the sea break upon the sandy

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