RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Note on age of burial mounds]. CUL-DAR63.88. 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 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. The volumes CUL-DAR63, CUL-DAR64 and CUL-DAR65 contain a diverse array of materials for Darwin's research on earthworms. All of the textual items in these folders, including this one, have been transcribed in a single file: CUL-DAR63-65.
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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
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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