RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [Santa Cruz calculations]. [4-5.1834] CUL-DAR34.120-121. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections and editing by John van Wyhe 3.2011. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. This document, part of the largest scientific document composed by Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle, is written mostly in ink. Marginal notes are here integrated into the text.
Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
See the introduction to the Geological Diary by Gordon Chancellor.
These transcriptions have been revised and further edited in John van Wyhe and Gordon Chancellor eds., Charles Darwin's geological diary and field notes from the voyage of the Beagle. (OUP forthcoming)
120
noon — cliffs = 418 + 140 = 558
M. Stepout little [illeg] 54 479 + 194 = 673
(Z) plain = 525 + 218 = 743
The height of supposed plain beneath lava + 63 imagined — gravel } 650 587 + 294 = 944 ??
or with 212 gravel 587 + 212 = 1093 ??
Alluvium = 310 + 329 = 639. —
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20th | 69. 05. 00 | 59 17 42 |
5 4 0 9 3 6 |
Ap. 21 | |||
25th | 69. 59. 15 — | 69.38 | |
26th | 70. 09. 15 — | 70.4 | |
28th | 70. 32. 45 — (- 2.) | ||
29. | 70. 42. 30 — | ||
30. | 70. 55. 00— | ||
3d | 71. 45. 15 | ||
4th am. | |||
71. 55. 15 |
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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