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Charles Darwin head's out from Plymouth on the H.M.S. Beagle with a crew of 73 men
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Darwin's 1st discovery was made here- a horizontal white band of shells within a cliff face along the shoreline about forty-five feet above sea level. The cliff face was at one time under water. Darwin wondered how it ended up forty-five feet above the sea? He noted that the line was not even horizontal, but varied in height. This supported Lyell's theory of a world slowly changing over a great period of time. https://www.aboutdarwin.com/timeline/time_04.html
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Capt. FitzRoy and Darwin have an argument over the black slavery. Darwin is revolted, while Capt. FitzRoy tries to defend slavery. It was settled shortly after a cooling-off period.
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Captain FitzRoy returns three native people(who he'd brought to England from an earlier voyage) to their home.
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Though disappointed to find the place barren, Darwin was excited to find the Falklands were full of Brachiopods.
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Darwin was impacted after experiencing the earthquake, saying" I believe this earthquake has done more in degrading or lessening the size of the island, than 100 years of ordinary wear and tear."
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Darwin found assorted species of plants, birds and tortoises and other species. He found that no other iguana swam or fed in the ocean like the marine iguana.
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Coming into Sydney Cove, Darwin feels proud he was born an Englishmen.
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Charles studied the coral reefs around the islands to test his atoll theory.
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Darwin went to visit Sir John Herschel in Cape Twon and they talked about natural history.
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After four years, nine months of voyaging, Darwin and his crew of 73 made it back home.
