RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of letter from R. E. Alison. CUL-DAR42.20. 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).
"Alison, Robert Edward. English author and resident of Valparaiso and later managing director of a Chilean mining company who wrote on South American affairs. In the St. Fe notebook, Chancellor & van Wyhe, Beagle notebooks, 2009." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)
Letter from R. E. Alison to Darwin (25.6.1835), transcribed in Correspondence vol. 1, p. 450. CUL-DAR36.427-427a
[20]
[in margin:] {numbers & detail about veins}
Alisson Paper
p. 5 No proof of vein posterior to alluvium.
Perforated inside. Concholepas - wrong
Near Talca fossil bones
Coquimbo wrong - 500
The water came in to men employed in working S. Augustin Filling up Bay curious statements
Rock of 7 ft. formerly surrounded now only four feet water at any tide
By old Battery no proof of change
[20v]
Rock near Playancha same as was formerly - Think East side of Bay & not other?
Boulders on Chiloe
Tiles opened & shut
Isl Santa [of] Maria elevated
Thinks eruptions more frequent in summer than winter
Metallic veins N & S. in Copiapò
Iquique trees
[3]
In 1644 St Augustin built
(East side apparently elevated - West side Fort (Half Moon battery of San Antonio) not elevated from position, & from path being recollected, & bathing place & Fishermen huts - Fort must have been subsequent to 1712 - Playancha rock bears out same story.
Mem stone in centre of Bay
Fisherman Bay where rock elevated near Fort Baron 10,000 yards from F. St. Antonio. (Mem: story of sentinel)
[4]
Mem to ask Alison where was sentinel who could see some change in Fort
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