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Limestone with lead ore: Maldonado. M^r Mawe¹ P. 20. —

Gold ore: do: Falkner:²

At junction of Barriga Negra & Polanco limestone, dull thick colour &c &c. P 24. Mawe

Gypsum. in concretions on surface. & limestone &c &c &c Mawe. P 25.

Minas: Limestone (lead & silver?).

Saltpetre district runs from. Vuulcan & Cape St Antonio to Corrientes. — St Jago & Rioja. — with hills in centre, which produce fresh water. — Falkner P 37

No rock in Buenos Ayres. — but at Tandil Vuulcan, then any stone proper to the ground. Falkner. P 55

Fossil bones of various sorts at Parana & few leagues from the mouth of Carcaranna — P 55 Falkner.

In the cliffs, West of St Lucia there are peculiar flat stones. Cap: Paget:³ —

Teeth belonging probably to Mastodon found at Salto in Provincia de B. Ayres.

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¹ Mawe 1825.

² Falkner 1774.

³ Charles Henry Paget (1806-1845), Commanded HMS Samarang, 1831-1835. He is mentioned several times in the Beagle diary between March and October 1832 in Bahia.

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their teeth are now in possession (2 of them) of Manuel Esquenaga at Buenos Ayres:¹

This is a rough outline of the one yet in possession of Sr Barboza²

[pencil sketch]
a
k k

This tooth was much smaller than the others.— the drawing represents the gnawing surface.— I should think (a) was the outer side.— it has been been much worn (k k) are the curved plate of enamel — the whole surface now flat. I should think was formerly composed of 3 hillocks. (perhaps double) if so agreeing with small tooth of Mastodon:— Get M^r Earl³ to make drawing:—

¹ Manuel Esquenaga has not been identified. Presumably an error for Esquenazi.

² Barboza has not been identified, see "Miss Barboza" on following page. A prominent local family for generations.

³ Augustus Earle (1793-1838), "Wandering artist of some distinction; visited all five continents. Draughtsman at start of 2d voyage of Beagle. CD 'Earle's eccentric character'. FitzRoy 'I engaged an artist...at £200 per year'. His original Beagle sketches are not known to survive although other material remains. Many of the Beagle sketches were engraved and published in Narrative….1832 Aug. Left Beagle in Montevideo owing to continuous ill-health. His illness was rheumatism. Replaced by Conrad Martens in Dec. 1833." Darwin: A Companion, 2021, pp. 242-3. Mentioned in Zoology notes, p. 72.

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Salto is near either Rio Arrenco or Arrecife — perhaps it the upper part of the latter:— in possession of Miss Barboza at M. Video (Salto head Arrecife. Ignat: Nunez)¹

What sort of case had the fabulous gran bestia ??

Oakley (joiner) found Megatherium for M^r Parish.—² Monte Video

South of Rio Negro, cliffs of Tosca? M^r Parry³

Cliffs of limestone (burnt for lime) north of the Aroia del Palmar. M^r Parry

Viscaches post coitum, quasi canes inter se adnexi sunt⁴

M^r Patchley (good authority on the bank of Rio Salado, there occurs beautifully crystallized gypsum. M^r Oakley gave some to M^r Parish

M^r Flint an american merchant has a large tooth at B. Ayres^:4

(M^r Oakley ?)

¹ Ignacio Benito Nuñez (1792-1846). Nuñez 1825.

² Oakley was the agent of Woodbine Parish (1796-1882), the British consular representative in Buenos Ayres. He is mentioned various times in the Beagle notebooks and the Geological diary, see here.

³ Mr Parry, a British merchant at Montevideo.

⁴ Latin for 'Viscaches after intercourse are connected to each other like dogs' Darwin later used this remark in his Beagle animal notes CUL-DAR29.1.A1-A49, in the Zoological diary, p. 180, and finally in Mammalia, p. 88.

⁴ Mr Flint, an American merchant at Buenos Ayres.

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El gigante near Mondoza

name of hill 500 ft high

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