. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). NOTES 95 Z^. Section of Inland cliff at Abesse, near Dax. a, Sand of the Landes. b, Limestone. c, Clay. ^^ Thomas Falkner, A Description of Patagonia (London, 1774), p. 51: "Being in the Vuulcan, below Cape St. Anthony, I was witness to a vast cloud of ashes being carried by the winds, and darkening the whole sky. It spread over great part of the jurisdiction of Buenos-Ayres, passed the River of Plata, and scattered it's contents on both sides of the river, in so much that the grass was covered with ashes. This was caused by the eruption
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). NOTES 95 Z^. Section of Inland cliff at Abesse, near Dax. a, Sand of the Landes. b, Limestone. c, Clay. ^^ Thomas Falkner, A Description of Patagonia (London, 1774), p. 51: "Being in the Vuulcan, below Cape St. Anthony, I was witness to a vast cloud of ashes being carried by the winds, and darkening the whole sky. It spread over great part of the jurisdiction of Buenos-Ayres, passed the River of Plata, and scattered it's contents on both sides of the river, in so much that the grass was covered with ashes. This was caused by the eruption of a volcano near Mendoza; the winds carrying the light ashes to the incredible distance of three hundred leagues or ; ^^ Lyell, Principles of Geology, vol. 3, p. 204: "Some of these bones [in certain strata in the basin of the Loire] have precisely the same black colour as those found in the peaty shell-marl of Scotland; and we might imagine them to have been dyed black in Miocene peat which was swept down into the sea during the waste of cliffs, did we not find the remains of cetacea in the same strata, bones, for example, of the lamantine, morse, sea-calf, and dolphin, having precisely the same ; ^^ Lyell, Principles of Geology, vol. 1, p. 316: "We have before mentioned the violent earthquakes which, in 1812, convulsed the valley of the Mississippi at New Madrid, for the space of three hundred miles in length. As this happened exactly at the same time as the great earthquake of Caraccas, it is probably that these two points are parts of one continuous volcanic ; *^ Humboldt, Personal Narrative, vol. 4, pp. 11-12: "The extraordinary com- motions felt almost continually during two years on the borders of the Missisippi and the Ohio, and which coincided in 1812 with those of the valley of Caraccas, were preceded at Louisiana by a year almost exempt from thunder ; ^^ Lyell, Principles of Geology, vol. 1, pp. 321-32
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