RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1842]. Draft fragment of, Notes on the effects produced by the ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire. CUL-DAR50.E53. 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
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.
Darwin, C. R. 1842. Notes on the effects produced by the ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire, and on the boulders transported by floating ice. The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine 21 (September): 180-188.[E53]
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are to be seen, & this change is effected by an ascent of only a few yards! Viewing these mountains from a distance the beholder would suppose their summits were constituted of some quite different formation, from their bases, round which the icy stream must have swept for ages. So great is the contrast, that anyone viewing these mountains from a distance would in many cases naturally conclude that their bases & their summits were composed of different formations.
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