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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. All geographical miles. CUL-DAR205.2.113. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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All geographical miles

57½ miles Dover to London

1 hour & say latter 20 to 30 minutes

say 85 minutes

85 min: 60 :: 57 :

[calculations] (40¼ per hour

[illeg] to London 138 miles

7 hrs: 1 :: 138

[calculations] (19. [illeg] 3/7 of hour

London to Brussels about 140 in 7½ so about same rate

Mr Innes remarked to me how Partridges fly downwind in Gale

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Lordwood near Petworth to London 37½ miles

60 : 70

70 : 60 : 37. [calculations] (31 5/7

Lordwood is 2 miles N. of Chichester 46 miles geographical

[calculations] Aperfield to Surrey [illeg] barely 14 miles or say 14 miles & fly in 18 minutes

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