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  • Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
  • Geology: a long section through mountains, and a volcano, showing strata, and, above, classes of animals. Coloured engraving by J. Fisher after T. Webster and F. Buckland.
  • A man and his assistant holding a rope to survey a field. Woodcut, 15--.
  • An Arabic (?) man singing from a songbook; African or Indian men surveying the land; westerners sowing seed and reaping; smiths hammering iron. Engraving.
  • Geography: comparative heights of mountains in South America. Aquatint, 1818.
  • Surveying: equipment for surveying, a level, a plumb-line, etc. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.
  • Louis Lacharme, with a level and with local assistants, clearing a route through dense jungle in Panama for an interoceanic canal. Wood engraving by G. Vuillier.
  • Geology: a long section through mountains, and a volcano, showing strata, and, above, classes of animals. Coloured engraving by J. Fisher after T. Webster and F. Buckland.
  • Measurement: a pedometer. Engraving, [1661?].
  • Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
  • Surveying: methods of surveying hills around a bay (?). Engraving by J.B.P. Tardieu.