WCP3553

Letter (WCP3553.3450)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Jan[uar]y. 27th. 1893

H. R. Mill Esq.1

Dear Sir

In your Elementary Class Book of General Geography2 p. 206, you say — "There are even some broad valleys traversed by rivers, which escape underground, that are quite inaccessible to man". I happen just now to be writing a paper on such valleys and should be much obliged if you could refer me to any work describing them. The only ones I know in Australia are the Grose & the Cox River valleys3, described [2] in Major Mitchell’s4 Exploration in Eastern Australia5, but he says nothing about the rivers anywhere running underground, which I believe they have been long since accessible & occupied by farms. References to any accounts of rock-walled valleys will be very acceptable.

Believe me | Yours very Faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace. [signature]

1
Hugh Robert Mill, geographer and meteorologist, lived 1861 — 1950.
2
An Elementary Class-Book of General Geography was published in 1889.
3
Both Grove Valley and Coxs River are located in New South Wales, Australia.
4
Sir Thomas Mitchell, surveyor and explorer, lived 1792 — 1855.
5
Refers to Mitchell’s two-volume book Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales, published in 1839.

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Transcribed by Wong, Jennifer [2012-08-15] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

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