RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of John Ball, Remarks upon the Geology, and physical features of the country west of the Rocky Mountains, with miscellaneous facts, 1835. CUL-DAR5.B83. 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 12.2021. 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.

John Ball. 1835. Remarks upon the Geology, and physical features of the country west of the Rocky Mountains, with miscellaneous facts. American Journal of Science and Arts 28: 1-16.

Related abstract in CUL-DAR5.B75-B76.

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Sillimans J. vol. 28 p. 3 Mr Ball on the Geology of the Rocky mountains. The division of the waters in Lat. above 40 near the sources of Lewis river seems formed by a plain nearly ten thousand ft high covered with boulders of granite.

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