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Title: Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. "Beagle" under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. Identifier: cu31924010074684 Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Subjects: Beagle Expedition (1831-1836); Natural history; Geology; Voyages around the world Publisher: London : J. Murray Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN


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Text Appearing Before Image: TERRACES OF SHINGLE 337 deal of food, in case we should be snowed up, as the season was rather late for passing the Portillo. Marcli igth.—We rode during this day to the last, and therefore most elevated house in the valley. The number of inhabitants became scanty ; but wherever water could be brought on the land, it was very fertile. All the main valleys in the Cordillera are characterised by having, on both sides, a fringe or terrace of shingle and sand, rudely stratified, and gener- ally of considerable thickness. These fringes evidently once extended across the valleys, and were united ; and the bottoms of the valleys in northern Chile, where there are no streams, are thus smoothly filled up. On these fringes the roads are gener- ally carried, for their surfaces are even, and they rise with a very gentle slope up the valleys; hence, also, they are easily cultivated by irrigation. They may be traced up to a height of between 7000 and 9000 feet, where they become hidden by the irregular piles of debris. At the lower end or mouths of the valleys, they are continuously united to those land-locked plains (also formed of shingle) at the foot of the main Cordillera, which I have described in a former chapter as characteristic of the scenery of Chile, and which were undoubtedly deposited when the sea penetrated Chile, as it now does the more southern coasts. No one fact in the geology of South America inter- ested me more than these terraces of rudely-stratified shingle. They precisely resemble in composition the matter which the torrents in each valley would deposit, if they were checked in z

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