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  <dc:title>Letter, from Robert FitzRoy to Sir John Herschel, dated at Meteorological Dept., B.o.T.</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for sending his Physical Geography. Wonders whether a rainbow could be reflected to the eye from water. Startled to read J. R. Hind's letter about the comet. Encloses a letter from a railway surveyor about an earthquake in Mendoza. This person has been responsible for the railway between Chile and Peru. Comments on the gradients and working of the line.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>10 May 1861</dc:date>
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