WCP665

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Soon I found myself at Newcastle & here M^r Wallace took hold of me & conveying me to the Eastern Archipelago bid me notice how as we passed through the islands of Sumatra Java & Borneo & Java[.]

The Fauna shewed¹ but ordinary changes commensurate with the distance we had passed, but then taking me to the Eastern Cliffs ^Shores of Bali, he pointed out that in the next island separated only by a distance of 15 miles, but by a deeper sea than those between the previous islands we had passed, the Fauna underwent a total change — that in short[,] we were in one Continent so to speak & that at ^{in Lombock [Lombok]} began the great Continent of Australia.

rec[eive]^d from Wallace

21/10/[18]63