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P. 20. —

Limestone with lead ore: Maldonado. M^r Mawe¹

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. Vuulcian & 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 Tardil Vuulcan, then any stone proper to the ground. Falkner. p.55

Fossil bones of various sorts at Parana & few leagues from the mouth of Carcaran — p 55 Falkner

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

Teeth belonging probably to Mastodon found at Salto in Province do B. Ayres

¹ Mawe 1825.

² Falkner 1774.

³ Charles Henry Paget (1806-1845), captain in the Royal Navy. He is mentioned several times in the Beagle Diary between March and October 1832.

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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 Fr Barbosa

[sketch]
a
k k

This tooth was much smaller than the others. — the drawing represents the gnawing surface. — I should this (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 East to make drawing: —

¹ Manuel Esquenaga has not been identified.

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

What sort of case had the fabulous gran bestia ??

Oakley (-farmer) 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. Ayres⁴

(M^r Oakley ?)

¹ Miss Bartoza has not been identified.

² Oakley was the agent of Woodbine Parish (1796-1882), the British consular representative. 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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A gigante near Mondoza

name of hill 500 ft high