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IF you can find space for the subjoined list of shells from the ancient beach on the Thatcher rock in Torbay, it may prove acceptable to such geologists as interest themselves in the question recently resuscitated by Prof. McKenny Hughes, as to whether the ancient Devonshire beaches are “raised,” as commonly supposed, or merely high-level, as some hold them to be.
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HUNT, A. Raised Beaches versus High-Level Beaches. Nature 37, 275 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037275a0
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