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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: May 4th. -- Captain Fitz Roy determined to take the boat
no higher. The river had a winding course, and was ver
rapid; and the appearance of the country offered no temptation
to proceed any further. Everywhere we met with th
same productions, and the same dreary landscape. We wer
now one hundred and forty miles distant from the Atlantic
and about sixty from the nearest arm of the Pacific. Th
valley in this upper part expanded into a wide basin, bounde
on the north and south by the basaltic platforms, and fronte
by the long range of the snow-clad Cordillera. But w
viewed these grand mountains with regret, for we wer
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