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The gallery of nature and art; or, a tour through creation and science. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanoes, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature. Forming a rich and comprehensive view of all that is interesting and curious in every part of the habitable world. By the Rev. E. Polehampton, and John M. Good, F.R.S. Illustrated by one hundred engravings / [Edward Thomas William Polehampton].

  • Polehampton, Edward (Edward Thomas William), 1777?-1830.
Date:
1821
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Credit: The gallery of nature and art; or, a tour through creation and science. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanoes, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature. Forming a rich and comprehensive view of all that is interesting and curious in every part of the habitable world. By the Rev. E. Polehampton, and John M. Good, F.R.S. Illustrated by one hundred engravings / [Edward Thomas William Polehampton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dreadful Disruption or Breaking of the. Dykes in “Holland, 1430. . To face page View.of Mount Parnassus . . . ai 408 View of the Glaciers, in the Grindelwald; Switzerland 415 View of the Devil’s Bridge, and its Rocks, on Mount St. Gothard, in the Swiss Canton of Uri ss 418 The Rock Bridge in Virginia. . . . . 439 The Needle Rocks, Isle of Wight 444 The Giant’s Causeway in Ireland 472 “VOLUME UII. Fall of the Rhine, near the Bridge at Schaffhausen . 24 Subterranean Disappearance of the Rhone, near Geneva . 26 Aqueduct of the Peat Forest Canal, over the River Mersey 36 The Castle of St. Angelo, St. Peter’s Church, and nan over the Tiber, at Rome 80 The great Geyser, or Boiling Spring.at Haukadal,, in Teeletelh 119 Mode of Travelling over the Snow in Iceland . J. owe AST Inside View of St. Winifred’s Well, Flintshire, North Wales . 175 The Falls of Niagara . + O15 Fall of the Staub-bach, in the Valley of fathead chs erland : . 219 High Force, or the Fall of the Teese on og West a Sele 294 View on the Lake Ladoga... .\.,.0 2k F 232 Ulleswater, Westmoreland, from the Duke of Norfolk's Park 258 The Bowdar Stone, in the Gorge of Borrowdale, Cumberland 261 Loch-Lomond and Ben Lomond . ra ES. fi 269 The Pees Bridge, between Berwick and Panburel bps 270 View of the Petrifying Spring, or Dropping Well, at Knares- borough, in Yorkshire. . 283 286