RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Voyages of Adventure and Beagle, 1839. CUL-DAR5.B53. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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-DAR5 contains Edinburgh lecture notes, 1825-7; class cards; zoological walk to Portobello; geological notes, Shrewsbury & with Sedgwick; alluvium; Salisbury Craigs; for glacier papers, 1839-42.
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Voyages of Adventure and Beagle
Vol. I p. 56
58} merely quantity of ice
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337 Most important glacier at least 168 ft – can ve calculated because 7 fathoms out of water
Speaking of fragments of separation & granite & other of these glaciers being dirty
Capt. Washington tells me, that in appending to Edinburgh Cab Enegelop. there is a [illeg]fication of popular error about the floating of ice.
(Hooker's fragment base)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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