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From Daniel Mackintosh   8 December [1867]

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Thanks CD for information on inclined terraces in S. America, which DM thinks applies to the chalk downs of S. England. CD’s definition that the sea widens and fresh water deepens is key to the subject.

Author:  Daniel Mackintosh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Dec [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5711

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  • Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1838): 446–9. [ Shorter publications , pp. 32–5. ] Greenwood, George. 1866. Rain and rivers; or, Hutton and Playfair against Lyell