RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Voyages of Adventure and Beagle, 1839. CUL-DAR5.B53. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN1
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[B53]
Voyages of Adventure and Beagle
Vol. I p. 56
58} merely quantity of ice
140
258
329
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)
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