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Telegraph & Rail2,
Shoreham, Kent.
L. C. & D. RLY.3
16 Nov[embe]r. [18]93
DARENT-HULME4,
SHOREHAM,
SEVENOAKS.
Dear Mr. Wallace,
I see you are engaged upon that ever[?]-interesting subject The Glacial phenomena — At least upon that phase of it which treats of the Erratic blocks5. You are probably aquainted with the recent researches [2] of the Danish Geologists in Greenland which give a much higher conception of the power[?] & rapidit[y] of ice work[?] than did the the earlier researches in the Alps. In case you have not seen this report I send you a copy of one of my papers which will give you a clue[?] [3]6 to the subject7. You will find it at p. 11 of the paper. The object[?] of the paper otherwise is mainly that of glacial time as regards the antiquity of Man & I am
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