RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Bougainville, Voyage autour du monde, etc., 1772. CUL-DAR40.17. 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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Louis Antoine de Bougainville. 1772. Voyage autour du monde par la frégate la Boudeuse et la flûte l'Étoile, vol. 1. Paris.
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.
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Vol I P. 262 Bougainville
Near C. Forward. "Le Cap eleve de plus de cent cinquante pieds au dessus du niveau de la mer est tout entier composé de couches horisontales de coquette pétrifeés. J'ai fonde en canot au pied du ce monument que atteste les grande changemens arrivés a notre globe & je n 'y ai pas trouve de fond avec une ligne de cent brasses" What is this? Has C. King specimens.—
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