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The image has been removed from the page. Bottom of page: a quotation from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man, reading, "Man walk'd with beast, joint tenant of the shade."

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The image is an outline of a branch of a plant with numerous leaves and a central blossom. The Latin name is given as Justicia picta (see Graptophyllum pictum).

The image shows a black, blue, and red bird perched on a branch with several leaves and groups of dark purple berries. The Latin name for the plant is given as Ficus benjamina (see Ficus benjamina).

The image shows a bird on a small plant with flowers of many colors. Bottom of page: caption reads, "NB: The Flowers ar eentirely composed of its Feathers."

The image shows a duck in water, next to a tuft of grass. No Latin name is given.

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The image shows a woman, dressed in pink and green, in a grove, before a structure with a lingam on the bottom of the platform. She holds a garland, and there are offerings around the lingam as well.

The image shows a butterfly on branch lined with leaves, pink-white flowers, and seed pods. The Latin name for the plant is given as Aschynomene grandiflora (see Sesbania grandiflora). The butterfly is not identified.

The image shows a branch of a bamboo tree. The Latin name is given as Arundo Bambos (see Bambusa bambos).

The image shows a branch of a tree with several large red blossoms and a few green and brown pods hanging below. The Latin name is given as Erythrina Corallodendron (see Erythrina corallodendron).

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The image shows a branch of a coconut tree, with green fronds extending on both sides. Bottom of page: Forbes includes a Latin quotation from Pliny's Natural History--"In palmarum foliis primo scriptatum"--with the gloss, "The Leaves of Palm Trees were used to write on by the ancients."

The drawing shows a branch of a banyan tree with leaves and fruits, without surrounding illustration. There are several roots descending from the branch.

The image shows a detail of a tree, focusing on palm-like fronds. No Latin name is given (see possibly Pandanus odorifer).

The drawing depicts a bunch of coconuts, without surroudning illustration. The Latin name is given as Cocos nucifera - Lin: (see Cocos nucifera).

The drawing is a detail of the fruit of the Betel-nut tree, with no surrounding illustration. There are two nuts at the bottom of the image, one labeled "The Nut in the Outer Coat," and the other labeled "The Nut divided."

The drawing is a detail of the fruit of the Betel-nut tree, with no surrounding illiustration. The Latin name is given as Areca Catechu - Lin: (see Areca catechu).

Bottom of page: a quotation ascribed to Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), beginning, "Each Moss, Each Shell, each crawling Insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him."

Bottom of page: "Scribere jussit Amor. In Every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. James Forbes 1769." The latter sentence is an excerpt from Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism.

The text includes a quote from James Thomson's "The Seasons," beginning, "soft roll your incense, herbs, & fruits, & flowers, In mingled clouds to Him."

Bottom of page: a quotation from poet John Scott (1731-1783), beginning, "To us, O Great Supreme! Thy care extends; Thy bounty feeds us, and thy power defends."

The image shows a number of small boats docked in the foreground, with several piers extending into the water beyond them. In the distance are hills, as well as larger ships. People are visible on some of the ships in the foreground.

Bottom of page: "All is the hand of God! For He is there!"

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The image shows three women, one holding a peacock feather fan, another a plate of fruit, and another a music instrument. They stand immediately outside of a building. The image has a flower border and seems to imitate an Indian style of painting.

The image shows an area of grass surrounded by water. The frog has been removed from the page.

Bottom of page: a quotation from Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846), beginning, "In links of steel here Superstition binds the unsuspecting native."

The title includes a drawing of a stone, at the bottom of which sit several Indian individuals holding agricultural products and implements. Bottom of page: a quotation from poet Edward Young's (1683-1765) Night Thoughts, beginning, "This lovely scene a chearful prospect yields, of shining rivers, and of verdant fields."

Bottom of page: an adapted passage from "The Lusiads" by Camões, beginning, "Now every eye with anxious sight explores, the wide horizon of the western shores."

Bottom of page: a quotation from Anna Laetitia Barbauld's (1743-1825) "An Invitation: To Miss B-----," beginning, "Lo! I, impell'd by some resistless force, o'er seas and rocks have urg'd my ventrous course."

At bottom of page: a quotation beginning, "In all we trace the bright impressions of Thy hand," a possible reference to the poetry of Mark Akenside (1721-1770).

Bottom of page: a passage from a poem probably by Soame Jenyns, beginning, "To some how fair appears each grain of sand."

the image shows a broken column with several remants of statues on either side. Above, a figure with wings, an hourglass, and a sythe, balances on the column. The text on the column reads: "All destroying TIME! What can resist thy rage? The noble Pile sinks down before THEE! And the solid Rock moulders away! A Description of the Caves at the Islands of Elephanta, and Salsette." Bottom of page: a quotation from Tibullus, reading, "Longa dies molli saeca peredit aqua," and translated as, "In time soft rains through marble sap their way."

Bottom of page: a quotation from Luís Vaz de Camões's "The Lusiads," translated by William Mickle, beginning, "Various the Tribes, all led by fables vain, their rites the dotage of the dream-full brain."

Bottom of page: a quotation from poet Thomas Gisborne's (1758-1846) Walks in a Forest, beginning, "Thy several gifts, harmonious though dissimilar."