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region & Brazilian. — In plants I

great cause of variation.— It is

— many of the variations, which

"conditional", are really adaptive;

trifling point affecting other

— It is, however, most

force can withstand vast

— & not have varied; whereas

with apparently hardly any

strange [illeg] that local varieties

more perplexing, that great

& exquisitely [text excised] differences of structure.

Goose & Duck good case of difference in variability—

Ass & Horse do. —

Descent undoubtedly quite overrules & overwhelms effect of conditions & even adaptations.—

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The Fairies of the Mountain

Once on a time there lived some fairies in a mountain, in a volcano the lava of which spouted up to the moon. When the fairies were in the moon they dug a hole there

The trees there had no leaves but instead some had frogs some toads & mice growing on them. The birds had [...] on them instead of feathers. [...] rfs was named Polytax & the [...] shanks. When they dug the [...] acket of the curious sorts of trees [...] ines growing there, & they made [...] vines and made