RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d.  I infer that silicious matter has been separated during casting of these rocks by a concretionary process. CUL-DAR50.C27r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN1

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From these consideration; I infer that silicious matter has been separated during casting of these rocks by a concretionary process, like that which has taken place in so many sedimentary formation & has been aggregated, together some of these with other continent elements into the different nodules of obsidian & if the white & brown sphœrulites. Judging from


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