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  <dc:title>Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Whewell, dated at Cape Town</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Copy letter in John Herschel's hand. Has arrived at Cape Town; finds it an 'Earthly Paradise.' Describes its climate and noteworthy features of the southern heavens. John Frederick William Herschel's views on geology transformed by having read volume III of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>28 January 1834</dc:date>
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