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  <dc:title>Unpublished manuscript, 'Island of Trinidad' by R McCormick</dc:title>
  <dc:description>McCormick describes the topography of Trinidad, noting how the rocks from which the island is formed 'are in many places thrown up in the most extraordinary forms'. He describes the 'Nine-Pin Rock', 850 feet above the sea, and provides a list of Trinidad rock specimens.

Subject: Geography / Geology / Topography

Received 28 May 1840.

Written by McCormick aboard HMS Erebus.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>17 December 1839</dc:date>
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