RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Carbonate of Lime disseminated through the great Plas Newydd dike. CUL-DAR40.11. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. RN1

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Carbonate of Lime disseminated through the great Plas Newydd dike, - mem tres Montes. ((Henslow Anglesea))

great variety in nature of a dike. -Mem. at Chonos & Concepcion. P. 417

Veins of quartz exceedingly rare

Mem C. Turn P. 434 & 419

As Limestone passes into schist scales of chlorites - Mem. Maldonado P 375

Much Chlorite in some of the dikes. P 432 as in Andes.

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In Dampier's voyage there is a mine of metereology with respect to the discussion of winds & storms: -in Volney's travels also

Dampier's last voyage to New Holland P 127. - Caught a shark 11 ft long.

"Its maw was like a leathern sack, very thick & so tough that a sharp knife could not cut it: in which we found the Head & Boans of a Hippotomus; the hairy lips of which were still sound and not petrified, and the


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