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Photograph of a man holding a rifle and standing in a forest in Bulkley Valley, British Columbia, Canada surrounded by wild celery in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a valley and railway tracks, Cumbre de las Cruces, in Mexico in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Fragment of a verse collected from Angus MacAulay, aged 82, An Cnoc/Knock, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis beginning 'Cuim tug mi cion don fhear ud, Do Mhurchaidh mear mac MhicLeod'. The verse is composed of six lines. The accompanying note reads 'Stra[th] Leoid bet[ween] Ullapool &Catao[bh]' [possibly Bealach Beinn Leòid, Ulapul, both Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty and Cataibh/Sutherland].

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Photograph of a man on a horse (which is hidden by bushes or tall grass) riding through a field in Bulkley Valley, British Columbia, Canada in the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents This dark green Notebook documents Lyell's work whilst in London, and on location in Suffolk and Kent, Lyell is considering the antiquity of man, flints, hatchets and heights and depths of sea levels. The two previous notebooks 246 and 247 - have no indexes. This notebook is the first one featuring Lyell's Secretary, Arabella Buckley. Born in 1840, Buckley started to work as secretary to Lyell at the age of 24, and remained with him until his death in 1875. The index starts in...

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Poem beginning 'Glean mo shir sa G[leann] lia dail, Glean nach eil fianta ri fhaic' [Gleann Liathdail/Glen Liadale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and accompanying story which tells how only a MacIosag [MacIsaac] ever dared to visit the glen until this rhyme was composed.

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Syllabus for a series of 3 lectures Sir Archibald Geikie gave to The Royal Insitution of Great Britain in 1869, broadly focusing on valleys, hills and mountains, erosion, geological structure and related subjects.

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Photograph of the Timothy Bulkley Valley in British Columbia, Canada in the early 20th century showing the hills, grasslands and forests.

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Photograph of the Timothy Bulkley Valley in British Columbia, Canada in the early 20th century showing a man in a horse drawn cart riding through the tall grass with the forest in the background.

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Photograph of the valley of the Peace river [in Alberta, Canada] taken from the south bank in March 1904. The valley is 800 feet deep.