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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...E OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...the descriptions of each species an account of its habits and range. These works, which I owe to the high talents and disinter- ested zeal of the abov... ...nds towards defraying part of the ex- penses of publication. I have myself published separate volumes on the ‘Structure and Distribution of Coral Reef... ...mena of South America. Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, and White, have published several able papers on the Insects which were collected, and I tr... ...ng plains, towards the in- terior, whence the deluges of melted stone have originally proceeded. Within historical times, no signs of volcanic activit... ... was then making a ca- noe 70 feet in length from a solid trunk, which had originally been 110 feet long, and of great thickness. The contrast of palm...

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