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The Internet Wiretap Online Edition of
THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE
BY CHARLES DARWIN
From The Harvard Classics Volume 29
Copyright, 1909
P. F. Collier & Son, New York
Prepared by John Hamm <John_Hamm@mindlink.bc.ca>
from text scanned by Internet Wiretap
About the online edition.
The degree symbol is represented as "degs." Italics
are represented as _italics_. Footnotes are collected
at the end of each chapter.
This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, released September 1993.
THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE
PREFACE
I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work,
and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in
consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having
some scientific person on board, accompanied by an offer from
him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I
volunteered my services, which received, through the kindness of
the hydrographer, Capta . . .
