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D. Orbigny

Tinamus rufescens (little partridge)

Espino or Aroma in Acacia

near St Nicholas, p 96. discovered bones as large as ox. - a carnivorous animal as big as cat, & gnawing animal like rat.

Landed below the river of Conchillas (near Bajada) cliff 150 ft - ferruginous sandstone lowest bed, with bone of big animal - above sand half way up hardened clay, with gypsum above Alluvium with Unios on surface (origin doubtful) p 104.

By the S Lucia sand agglutinated cliffs not so high as near the Bajada

Corrientes said to be all tertiary sand hillocks on clay beds

 

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Entre Rios sand diluvial over clay with gypsum very much, over calcaire grossier. - no chain of mountains in centre

Cliffs at the Bajada 200 ft

sand-Limestone - sand.

Punta Gorda perhaps 300 ft

Pampas "argiles grossierè, un peu endurci, effervescente, gris cendre

(p. 470) Near San Pedro bed of the Corbula two or three feet thick 100 ft above the Parana - alludes to Elevation on coast at Patagonia: - Does not seem to have clear idea about quadrupeds inhabiting the plains themselves

 

Talks of sand hills scattered irregularly in parts of the Pampas

D. Orbigny considers Vilbosa,

Dasypus as Peludo

Chain of Tandil ENE WSW strata primordial inclined at 45° "du Nord au Sud" granites

The Sierra of Tinto; horizontal strata of Limestone!!

 

Virgularia Patagonica, so named

Bay of San Blas Vol II. p 43 great beds of shells, bivalves in their proper position, just [insertion:] buried in muddy sand the same as in neighbouring Bay 25 or 30 feet above height of sea (& says not solitary proof) = a league inland =

Says at San Blas sandstone & porphyry pebbles mingled

(muddy)