RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Marsden and Dampier. CUL-DAR42.11. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. RN1
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. The volume CUL-DAR42 contains notes for Darwin's book South America (1846).
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Marsden says where coast flat & shelving coral reefs all Sumatra; [p. 27]
[William Marsden. 1783. The history of Sumatra. London. Darwin cited Marsden in Coral reefs, p. 135]
Dampier p. 416: Pescadores moderately high appear much like our Dorsetshire or Wiltshire hills between China & Formosa
[William Dampier. 1703. A new voyage round the world. Darwin cited Dampier in Coral reefs, p. 181.]
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Mr Chas Hughes Information - Chain of Islands low in front. One at extreme point of Florida about 100 ft all elevated Coral rock. Islands separated from coast by very short & irregular channels.
Further northward backwater along whole coast.
Reef very steep on East side of ship channel in which Gulf Stream flows. Florida very low.
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