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half the mercilessly long discussion on climate
I have added a good deal about the Fuegians, and cut down into half the mercilessly long discussion on climate and glaciers, etc.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

half the mercilessly long discussion on climate
I have added a good deal about the Fuegians, and cut down into half the mercilessly long discussion on climate and glaciers, &c. I do not recollect anything added to the first part, long enough to call your attention to; there is a page of description of a very curious breed of oxen in Banda Oriental.
— from Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin

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