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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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...alia, by Professor Owen; of the Living Mammalia, by Mr. Waterhouse; of the Birds, by Mr. Gould; of the Fish, by the Rev. L. Jenyns; and of the Reptile... ...and its origin, no doubt, is due to the action of the rain or spray on the birds’ dung. Below some small masses of guano at Ascen- sion, and on the Ab... ... the lower vegetable productions. We found on St. Paul’s only two kinds of birds — the booby and the noddy. The former is a species of gannet, and the... ...f a most hos- pitable old Spaniard. Early in the morning we as- cended the Sierra de las Animas. By the aid of the rising sun the scenery was almost p... ... perma- nent records than these insignificant piles on the sum- mit of the Sierra de las Animas. The general, and almost entire absence of trees in Ba... ...agine for this choice, is its being a landmark in a dangerous passage. The Sierra de la Ventana is visible at an immense distance; and a Gaucho told m...

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