RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1835-1846]. Sections of the tertiary formation at Coquimbo. CUL-DAR39.188-193. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022, corrections by John van Wyhe 2024. RN3

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.


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(7 bis)

[Annotated figure] à Engraver. The letter [text excised] cut. ─ [text excised] be sh [text excised]

[South America, p. 128: "No. 21.─ Section of the tertiary formation at Coquimbo."]

[189]

[Annotated figure] No 11. low land sloping to the Beach

[South America, p. 43.]

[190]

[Figure] (8)

[South America, p. 39: "No. 9. ─ East and West section through the terraces at Coquimbo where they debouch from the valley, and front of sea."]

[191]

(No. 8)

East & West section, from the sea, through the town of Coquimbo and the terraces up to the highest plain: vertical scale 1/20" if inch to 100 ft. horizontal scale much reduced.

[Annotated figure] first dots from middle of each line

(no writing)?

[South America, p. 39: "No. 9. ─ East and West section through the terraces at Coquimbo where they debouch from the valley, and front of sea."]

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[Watercoloured pencil and ink sketch] (No. 12) (?)

(narrower & branch of rise close)

Sloping terraces of stratified shingle on each side of the valley of the Cordillera

[South America, p. 63: "No. 14.─ Ground-plan of a bifurcating valley in the Cordillera, bordered by smooth, sloping gravel-fringes (A A A), worn along the course of the river into cliffs." Cream-coloured wove paper.]

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γ (15 / [colour key:] [yellow] 1 [orange] 2 [pink] 3

East [sketch] W

[above sketch:] beds like A [2 words illeg] B X

[in sketch:] B / (B) / [calc] / (B) / (b)

[under sketch:] P. Tenuy 150 ft in height / 100 yards long? / 100 ft high?

[Watercoloured pencil and ink section of "a straight line of cliffs, at Point Tenuy". Watermark incomplete 'COLLINS 1828', 15x19cm. South America, p. 122: "No. 19." Cited in the Geological diary CUL-DAR35.193.]


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