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Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … Spaniards.” [ f.153r p.13 ] “Prior to 1828 – the Settlers of Carmen on the Rio Negro lived …
  • … excursions of minor parties of Indians have prevented the Settlers from again rearing Cattle in …
  • … a principal [ f.154v p.16 ] portion of the food of the Settlers (convicts I mean) would be …
  • … again by the tenor of my remarks on the place – and the Settlers &c but, besides other withheld …
  • … my attention so entirely to the history and condition of the Settlers and the Settlement – and the …
  • … voyage for other objects – and – That the Colonizers or Settlers of any land, previously discovered …
  • … if you remove if not all – at least the majority of the settlers – [about 1500 in all] from those …
  • … that the condition &c of the Colony at King George Sound (an older one than that on the Cocos) – …
  • … seine – yet with such an abundant supply close at hand the Settlers were living principally of …
  • … effective in breaking up the Settlement and dispersing the Settlers – whereas the half-measure which …
  • … make known at head-quarters the most urgent want of the Settlers.” (a Christian par …
  • … for having a British party of families – brought out as Settlers – but the refusal of the British …
  • … into effect – Mr Ross being well satisfied that British Settlers could not be retained in order …
  • … had put in at the Cocos with supplies for Mr Ross and the settlers. My part of actor being now …
  • … a previously uninhabited, or unoccupied, land – the first Settlers – if making it at their own …
  • … and is in the practice of importing Clay (to fertilize the Settlers’ plots of ground – wherein to …

Darwin and religion in America

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Thomas Dixon, 'America’s Difficulty with Darwin', History Today (2009), reproduced by permission.  Darwin has not been forgotten. But he has, in some respects, been misremembered. That has certainly been true when it comes to the relationship…

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  • … – I think that generally (and more and more so as I grow older), but not always, – that an agnostic …
  • … to the US Constitution. Many of the European settlers who arrived in North America in the …
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