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| Biographical Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Map | |
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| Preface | |
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| Porta Praya | |
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| Ribeira Grande | |
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| Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria | |
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| Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish | |
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| St. Paul's Rocks, nonvolcanic | |
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| Singular Incrustations | |
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| Insects the first Colonists of Islands | |
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| Fernando Noronha | |
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| Bahia | |
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| Burnished Rocks | |
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| Habits of a Diodon | |
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| Pelagic Confervae and Infusoria | |
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| Causes of discoloured Sea | |
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| Rio de Janeiro | |
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| Excursion north of Cape Frio | |
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| Great Evaporation | |
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| Slavery | |
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| Botofogo Bay | |
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| Terrestrial Planariae | |
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| Clouds on the Corcovado | |
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| Heavy Rain | |
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| Musical Frogs | |
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| Phosphorescent Insects | |
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| Elater, springing powers of | |
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| Blue Haze | |
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| Noise made by a Butterfly | |
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| Entomology | |
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| Ants | |
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| Wasp killing a Spider | |
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| Parasitical Spider | |
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| Artifices of an Epeira | |
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| Gregarious Spider | |
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| Spider with an unsymmetrical Web | |
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| Monte Video | |
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| Maldonado | |
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| Excursion to R. Polanco | |
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| Lazo and Bolas | |
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| Partridges | |
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| Absence of Trees | |
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| Deer | |
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| Capybara, or River Hog | |
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| Tucutuco | |
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| Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits | |
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| Tyrant-flycatcher | |
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| Mocking-bird | |
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| Carrion Hawks | |
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| Tubes formed by Lightning | |
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| House struck | |
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| Rio Negro | |
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| Estancias attacked by the Indians | |
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| Salt-Lakes | |
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| Flamingoes | |
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| R. Negro to R. Colorado | |
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| Sacred Tree | |
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| Patagonian Hare | |
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| Indian Families | |
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| General Rosas | |
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| Proceed to Bahia Blanca | |
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| Sand Dunes | |
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| Negro Lieutenant | |
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| Bahia Blanca | |
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| Saline Incrustations | |
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| Punta Alta | |
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| Zorillo | |
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| Bahia Blanca | |
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| Geology | |
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| Numerous gigantic extinct Quadrupeds | |
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| Recent Extinction | |
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| Longevity of Species | |
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| Large Animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation | |
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| Southern Africa | |
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| Siberian Fossils | |
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| Two Species of Ostrich | |
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| Habits of Oven-bird | |
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| Armadilloes | |
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| Venomous Snake, Toad, Lizard | |
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| Hybernation of Animals | |
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| Habits of Sea-Pen | |
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| Indian Wars and Massacres | |
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| Arrowhead, antiquarian Relic | |
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| Set out for Buenos Ayres | |
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| Rio Sauce | |
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| Sierra Ventana | |
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| Third Posta | |
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| Driving Horses | |
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| Bolas | |
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| Partridges and Foxes | |
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| Features of the Country | |
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| Long-legged Plover | |
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| Teru-tero | |
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| Hail-storm | |
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| Natural Enclosures in the Sierra Tapalguen | |
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| Flesh of Puma | |
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| Meat Diet | |
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| Guardia del Monte | |
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| Effects of Cattle on the Vegetation | |
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| Cardoon | |
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| Buenos Ayres | |
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| Corral where Cattle are Slaughtered | |
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| Excursion to St. Fe | |
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| Thistle Beds | |
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| Habits of the Bizcacha | |
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| Little Owl | |
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| Saline Streams | |
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| Level Plains | |
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| Mastodon | |
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| St. Fe | |
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| Change in Landscape | |
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| Geology | |
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| Tooth of extinct Horse | |
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| Relation of the Fossil and Recent Quadrupeds of North and South America | |
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| Effects of a great Drought | |
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| Parana | |
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| Habits of the Jaguar | |
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| Scissorbeak | |
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| Kingfisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail | |
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| Revolution | |
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| Buenos Ayres | |
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| State of Government | |
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| Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento | |
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| Value of an Estancia | |
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| Cattle, how counted | |
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| Singular Breed of Oxen | |
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| Perforated Pebbles | |
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| Shepherd Dogs | |
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| Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding | |
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| Character of Inhabitants | |
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| Rio Plata | |
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| Flocks of Butterflies | |
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| Aeronaut Spiders | |
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| Phosphorescence of the Sea | |
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| Port Desire | |
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| Guanaco | |
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| Port St. Julian | |
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| Geology of Patagonia | |
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| Fossil gigantic Animal | |
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| Types of Organization constant | |
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| Change in the Zoology of America | |
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| Causes of Extinction | |
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| Santa Cruz | |
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| Expedition up the River | |
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| Indians | |
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| Immense Streams of Basaltic Lava | |
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| Fragments not transported by the River | |
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| Excavation of the Valley | |
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| Condor, Habits of | |
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| Cordillera | |
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| Erratic Boulders of great size | |
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| Indian Relics | |
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| Return to the Ship | |
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| Falkland Islands | |
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| Wild Horses, Cattle, Rabbits | |
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| Wolf-like Fox | |
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| Fire made of Bones | |
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| Manner of Hunting Wild Cattle | |
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| Geology | |
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| Streams of Stones | |
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| Scenes of Violence | |
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| Penguin | |
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| Geese | |
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| Eggs of Doris | |
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| Compound Animals | |
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| Tierra del Fuego, first arrival | |
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| Good Success Bay | |
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| An Account of the Fuegians on board | |
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| Interview with the Savages | |
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| Scenery of the Forests | |
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| Cape Horn | |
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| Wigwam Cove | |
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| Miserable Condition of the Savages | |
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| Famines | |
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| Cannibals | |
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| Matricide | |
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| Religious Feelings | |
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| Great Gale | |
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| Beagle Channel | |
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| Ponsonby Sound | |
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| Build Wigwams and settle the Fuegians | |
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| Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel | |
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| Glaciers | |
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| Return to the Ship | |
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| Second Visit in the Ship to the Settlement | |
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| Equality of Condition amongst the Natives | |
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| Strait of Magellan | |
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| Port Famine | |
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| Ascent of Mount Tarn | |
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| Forests | |
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| Edible Fungus | |
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| Zoology | |
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| Great Sea-weed | |
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| Leave Tierra del Fuego | |
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| Climate | |
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| Fruit-trees and Productions of the Southern Coasts | |
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| Height of Snow-line on the Cordillera | |
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| Descent of Glaciers to the Sea | |
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| Icebergs formed | |
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| Transportal of Boulders | |
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| Climate and Productions of the Antarctic Islands | |
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| Preservation of Frozen Carcasses | |
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| Recapitulation | |
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| Valparaiso | |
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| Excursion to the Foot of the Andes | |
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| Structure of the Land | |
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| Ascend the Bell of Quillota | |
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| Shattered Masses of Greenstone | |
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| Immense Valleys | |
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| Mines | |
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| State of Miners | |
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| Santiago | |
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| Hot-baths of Cauquenes | |
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| Gold-mines | |
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| Grinding-mills | |
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| Perforated Stones | |
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| Habits of the Puma | |
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| El Turco and Tapacolo | |
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| Humming-birds | |
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| Chiloe | |
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| General Aspect | |
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| Boat Excursion | |
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| Native Indians | |
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| Castro | |
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| Tame Fox | |
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| Ascend San Pedro | |
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| Chonos Archipelago | |
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| Peninsula of Tres Montes | |
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| Granitic Range | |
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| Boat-wrecked Sailors | |
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| Low's Harbour | |
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| Wild Potato | |
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| Formation of Peat | |
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| Myopotamus, Otter and Mice | |
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| Cheucau and Barking-bird | |
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| Opetiorhynchus | |
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| Singular Character of Ornithology | |
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| Petrels | |
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| San Carlos, Chiloe | |
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| Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina | |
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| Ride to Cucao | |
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| Impenetrable Forests | |
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| Valdivia Indians | |
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| Earthquake | |
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| Concepcion | |
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| Great Earthquake | |
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| Rocks fissured | |
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| Appearance of the former Towns | |
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| The Sea Black and Boiling | |
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| Direction of the Vibrations | |
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| Stones twisted round | |
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| Great Wave | |
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| Permanent Elevation of the Land | |
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| Area of Volcanic Phenomena | |
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| The connection between the Elevatory and Eruptive Forces | |
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| Causes of Earthquakes | |
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| Slow Elevation of Mountain-chains | |
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| Valparaiso | |
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| Portilla Pass | |
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| Sagacity of Mules | |
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| Mountaintorrents | |
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| Mines, how discovered | |
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| Proofs of the gradual Elevation of the Cordillera | |
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| Effect of Snow on Rocks | |
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| Geological Structure of the two main Ranges, their distinct Origin and Upheaval | |
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| Great Subsidence | |
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| Red Snow | |
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| Winds | |
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| Pinnacles of Snow | |
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| Dry and clear Atmosphere | |
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| Electricity | |
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| Pampas | |
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| Zoology of the opposite Sides of the Andes | |
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| Locusts | |
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| Great Bugs | |
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| Mendoza | |
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| Uspallata Pass | |
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| Silicified Trees buried as they grew | |
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| Incas Bridge | |
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| Badness of the Passes exaggerated | |
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| Cumbre | |
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| Casuchas | |
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| Valparaiso | |
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| Coast-road to Coquimbo | |
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| Great Loads carried by the Miners | |
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| Coquimbo | |
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| Earthquake | |
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| Step-formed Terraces | |
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| Absence of recent Deposits | |
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| Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary Formations | |
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| Excursion up the Valley | |
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| Road to Guasco | |
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| Deserts | |
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| Valley of Copiapo | |
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| Rain and Earthquakes | |
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| Hydrophobia | |
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| The Despoblado | |
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| Indian Ruins | |
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| Probable Change of Climate | |
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| Riverbed arched by an Earthquake | |
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| Cold Gales of Wind | |
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| Noises from a Hill | |
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| Iquique | |
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| Salt Alluvium | |
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| Nitrate of Soda | |
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| Lima | |
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| Unhealthy Country | |
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| Ruins of Callao, overthrown by an Earthquake | |
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| Recent subsidence | |
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| Elevated Shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition | |
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| Plain with embedded Shells and fragments of Pottery | |
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| Antiquity of the Indian Race | |
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| The whole Group Volcanic | |
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| Number of Craters | |
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| Leafless Bushes | |
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| Colony at Charles Island | |
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| James Island | |
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| Salt-lake in Crater | |
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| Natural History of the Group | |
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| Ornithology, curious Finches | |
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| Reptiles | |
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| Great Tortoises, habits of | |
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| Marine Lizard, feeds on Seaweed | |
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| Terrestrial Lizard, burrowing habits, herbivorous | |
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| Importance of Reptiles in the Archipelago | |
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| Fish, Shells, Insects | |
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| Botany | |
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| American Type of Organization | |
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| Differences in the Species or Races on different Islands | |
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| Tameness of the Birds | |
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| Fear of Man, an acquired Instinct | |
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| Pass through the Low Archipelago | |
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| Tahiti | |
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| Aspect | |
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| Vegetation on the Mountains | |
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| View of Eimeo | |
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| Excursion into the Interior | |
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| Profound Ravines | |
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| Succession of Waterfalls | |
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| Number of wild useful Plants | |
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| Temperance of the Inhabitants | |
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| Their moral state | |
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| Parliament convened | |
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| New Zealand | |
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| Bay of Islands | |
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| Hippahs | |
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| Excursion to Waimate | |
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| Missionary Establishment | |
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| English Weeds now run wild | |
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| Waiomio | |
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| Funeral of a New Zealand Woman | |
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| Sail for Australia | |
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| Sydney | |
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| Excursion to Bathurst | |
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| Aspect of the Woods | |
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| Party of Natives | |
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| Gradual Extinction of the Aborigines | |
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| Infection generated by associated Men in health | |
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| Blue Mountains | |
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| View of the grand gulf-like Valleys | |
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| Their origin and formation | |
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| Bathurst, general civility of the Lower Orders | |
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| State of Society | |
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| Van Diemen's Land | |
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| Hobart Town | |
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| Aborigines all banished | |
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| Mount Wellington | |
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| King George's Sound | |
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| Cheerless Aspect of the Country | |
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| Bald Head, calcareous casts of branches of Trees | |
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| Party of Natives | |
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| Leave Australia | |
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| Keeling Island | |
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| Singular appearance | |
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| Scanty Flora | |
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| Transport of Seeds | |
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| Birds and Insects | |
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| Ebbing and flowing Springs | |
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| Fields of dead Coral | |
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| Stone transported in the roots of Trees | |
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| Great Crab | |
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| Stinging Corals | |
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| Coral-eating Fish | |
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| Coral Formations | |
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| Lagoon Islands, or Atolls | |
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| Depth at which reef-building Corals can live | |
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| Vast Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands | |
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| Subsidence of their foundations | |
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| Barrier Reefs | |
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| Fringing Reefs | |
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| Conversion of Fringing Reefs into Barrier Reefs, and into Atolls | |
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| Evidence of changes in Level | |
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| Breaches in Barrier Reefs | |
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| Maldiva Atolls; their peculiar structure | |
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| Dead and submerged Reefs | |
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| Areas of subsidence and elevation | |
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| Distribution of Volcanoes | |
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| Subsidence slow, and vast in amount | |
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| Mauritius, beautiful appearance of | |
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| Great crateriform ring of Mountains | |
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| Hindoos | |
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| St. Helena | |
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| History of the changes in the Vegetation | |
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| Cause of the extinction of Land-shells | |
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| Ascension | |
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| Variation in the imported Rats | |
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| Volcanic Bombs | |
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| Beds of Infusoria | |
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| Bahia | |
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| Brazil | |
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| Splendour of Tropical Scenery | |
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| Pernambuco | |
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| Singular Reef | |
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| Slavery | |
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| Return to England | |
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| Retrospect on our Voyage | |
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| Discussion Guide | |
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| Index | |