RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Note on age of burial mounds]. CUL-DAR63.88. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2021. 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.


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I suppose many burial mounds are more than 2000 years old.

7 inches small amount to be thrown up; therefore

7 / 2002 = 286

14

60

56

42

42

0

12/286 23 [ft], 10 [in] – nearly 24 ft in thickness [illeg]

24

46

36

10

[The illeg upper field 9 words illeg]

A slight steep cone wd invariably be cemented into a lower barren greatly sloping mound.  

Some [illeg] – wd be washed


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