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Palms 3 leagues S. of the Calera all about Salto conglomerate & sandstone

Rio Itaquy N of Ibicuy red sandstone with pebbles, stratified.

Little north of Ibiquy, sandstones, soil argite calcaire with nodules of silex ─ blocks of sandstone argillaceous─

Again grey soft quartzose sandstone near that formed little pieces of ("p…. Tu olivi

scoriæ rouge decomposeé, consistante et enduraie par de la zeolite" & retinite noir âtre. Cordier

Crossing to R. Grande.─ stratified sand & clays

Clayey soil fossil wood; there is gold in the mountain South of P. Alegre of Santa Maria da Serra; much fossilized wood gypsum basalt, "argite fermy tu melèe da sable" on the tops of some hills rounded blocks of wacke enduraie

[South America, p. 94: "I now find that M. Isabelle in his "Voyage à Buenos Ayres," has described closely similar beds on the Itaquy and Ibicuy (which enter the Uruguay some way north of the R. Negro) and these beds include fragments of red decomposed true scoriæ hardened by zeolite, and of black retinite: we have then here good evidence of volcanic action during our tertiary period."]

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Sturt vol II ─

p 74 talks of two Emus swimming across river

(copied)

[Cited in Journal of researches, p. 106: "Captain Sturt, when descending the Murrumbidgee, in Australia, saw two emus in the act of swimming."]

These seems large Tertiary formation near mouth of Murrow Ridge Murray

 

Isabelle (a fool), says that ichthyosaur are found near B. Ayres.─

Taton giant (& Rio Negro) found near San Nicolas

Ichthyosaurus found near R. Cuarey

Banda Oriental, described by Letton belongs to division squamifære p 333

Cardon el Espagne Cinaia cardunculus covers the hills South of Paysandu

At Paysandu formation tuf calcaire argilifère rougeâtre cordier p. 328