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What is a Boulder?

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A CORRESPONDENT in your journal of the 26th of May inquires about the size of boulders, and states that he cannot find any definition of the word which gives a notion of its size accurate enough for scientific purposes.

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    J. W. CRAWLEY

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CRAWLEY, J. What is a Boulder?. Nature 2, 102–103 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002102d0

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