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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...nado kind. Having after- wards procured a specimen, and comparing the two 64 The V oyage of the Beagle without particular care, they appeared so very... ...he coast not pen- etrating above three feet, and at Bear Lake, in latitude 64 degs., not more than twenty inches. The frozen substra- tum does not of ... ...age of the Beagle of birch, fir, aspen, and larch, growing in a latitude* (64 degs.) where the mean temperature of the air falls below the freezing po... ...lands (lat. 62 to 63 degs. S.), in a rather lower latitude than that (lat. 64 degs. N.) under which Pallas found the frozen rhinoceros in Siberia, is ... ...ousand dollars was agreed to be paid on the first of last Sep- tember. The Commodore at Lima ordered Captain Fitz Roy to inquire concerning this debt,...

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