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A Description of the Animal & Vegetable Productions on the Coast of Brazil; especially the Beasts, Birds, Fish, and Insects, in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro. 1765, [section title], between 1794 and 1800 Volume 1, Page 95

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).

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A Description of the Beasts, Birds, Fish, and Insects, on the Island of Bombay; 1768, [section title], between 1794 and 1800 Volume 2, Page 141

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

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A Description of the Caves at the Islands of Elephanta, and Salsette, [section title], between 1794 and 1800 Volume 6, Page 187

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."

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A Description of the City of Ahmed-abad; and the adjacent Country: with a concise history of the Conquest of Hindostan; by the Pathans, Moguls, & other Northern Nations, until the taking of Ahmed-abad by the English, in 1780, [section title], between 1794 and 1800 Volume 11, Page 227

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A Description of the different Tribes of Malabars, in the Dominions of the King of Travencore. 1773, [section title], between 1794 and 1800 Volume 6, Page 5

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."

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