Saturday, December 5, 2009

The death of Sir Charles. I have made some inquiries myself in the last few days but the results have I fear been negative. One thing only appears to be certain and that is that Mr. James Desmond.

Will explain a discovery I have made. Before I get to that however I want to say that at one time the island of Ceylon supplied the world with its most famous pearls. The early Egyptians discovered them there as well as on the Persian and Indian coasts. The pearl which Cleopatra is said to have dissolved in wine and swallowed was worth about four hundred thousand dollars in our money; but of course pearls were scarce in.
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Thousand feet in height; and I am only a little surprised at their bearing the marks of glacial action. For some temperate genera of plants viz. Vaccinium Andromeda Gaultheria Hypericum Drosera Habenaria inhabit these mountains and I look at this almost as good evidence of a cold period as glacial action. That there are not more temperate plants can be accounted for by the isolated position of these mountains. There are no erratic boulders on the Pacific coast north of Chiloe and but few glaciers in the Cordillera but it by no means follows I think that there may not have been formerly gigantic glaciers on the eastern and more humid side. In the third edition of "Origin " page 403 (363/3. "Origin " Edition VI. page 335 1882. "Mr. D. Forbes informs me that he found in various parts of the Cordillera from lat. 13 deg W. to 30 deg.
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