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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...win gave a pleasing effect to the nearer parts of the scen- ery. BAHIA, OR SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. 29th. — The day has passed delightfully. Delight... ..., around Maldonado, no such reason is apparent; the rocky mountains afford protected situations; enjoying vari- ous kinds of soil; streamlets of water... ... 69 Charles Darwin Transactions.* The sand-hillocks of Maldonado not being protected by vegetation, are constantly chang- ing their position. From thi... ...striches readily take to the water. Mr. King informs me that at the Bay of San Blas, and at Port Valdes in Patagonia, he saw these birds swimming seve... ...but on the western coast, as Dr. Hooker tells me, it extends to the R. San Francisco in California, and perhaps even to Kamtschatka. We thus have an i... ...ated often enough (and we know that earthquakes repeatedly affect the same areas in the same manner), form a chain of hills; — and the linear island o... ...on Islands, or Atolls —Depth at which reef-building Corals can live — Vast Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands — Subsidence of their foundations...

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