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Sir W. Parish

Height of Ventana Plain

p. 146 2500 ft

p. 154 Tandil 1000 ft

p. 168 — shells

[South America, p. 2: "Nearer Buenos Ayres, on the road from that place to San Isidro, there are extensive beds, as I am informed by Sir Woodbine Parish,‡ of the Azara labiata, lying at about forty feet above the level of the river, and distant between two and three miles from it. These shells are always found on the highest banks in the district: they are embedded in a stratified earthy mass, precisely like that of the great Pampean deposit hereafter to be described.
‡ Buenos Ayres, &c, by Sir Woodbine Parish, p. 168."]

Potomomya from Ariola N. of Buenos Ayres

p 175 on bank of lake skeleton — no high cliff where I found skeleton

p 178 (c) skeleton 5 ft below surface at Cannelas 20 miles south of B. Ayres

p 242 Earthquake in Cordoba

p 320 Height of Inca Bridge

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p 324 Gillies account of ascent of Diamante or Planchon

Paf — Volcano Gypsum

p 170 Fresh-water near Salinas

[South America, p. 75: "It at first appears very singular that fresh water can often be procured in wells,‡ and is sometimes found in small lakes, quite close to these salinas. I am not aware that this fact bears particularly on the origin of the salt; but perhaps it is rather opposed to the view of the salt having been washed out of the surrounding superficial strata, but not to its having been the residue of sea-water, left in depressions as the land was slowly elevated.
‡ Sir W. Parish states (Buenos Ayres, &c. p. 122 and 170) that this is the case near the great salinas westward of the S. Ventana. I have seen similar statements in an ancient MS. journey lately published by S. Angelis. At Iquique, where the surface is so thickly encrusted with saline matter, I tasted water only slightly brackish, procured in a well thirty-six yards deep; but here one feels less surprise at its presence, as pure water might percolate under ground from the not very distant Cordillera."]

I believe Viednia crossed rock E. of St. Julian