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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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    To face page A BoarHunt ... = eye 682 Quagga, with a View oft the Table Mannie at the Cape of Good Hope . 688 VOLUME VI. Major Mony’s perilous situation on falling into the Sea with his Balloon Section of St. Paul’s Cixiieasal View of the Great Wall of China . : Subterranean Temple of Elephanta, on the ‘Boning: Coast Immolation of a Hindoo Widow upon her Husband s Funeral Pile, at Juggernaut . . . - The Idol of Juggernaut ; Morai, in the Island of Tongataboo . Sepulchral Monument at Mylassa. . . . + - Arch of Mylassa : First and Second Pyramids of Gizah, Ancient “Memphis, ae Head of the Colossal Sphinx re Entrance into the Town of Luxor, in Egypt . . . - - The Temple of Apollinopolis, at Edfu . . . . whee Interior of the Temple of Apollinopolis Magna, at Rafa Porcelain Tower, at Nankin, in China . Colossus of Rhodes . Hanging Tower of Pisa, in. Tuscany haa ‘Frajan’s Pillar, at Rome...) 5). 3d as eae ee Roman Colosseum. . . - . we tie de Temple of St. Sophia, at Constantinople ae Cathedral Church at Salerno, in Italy EOE PRE Convent and Hermitage of Montserrat . Stone Henge, Salisbury Plain ft ta Cromlech and Cheese-wring, at Layon, Cornwall. The Eddystone Light-House . . . +» + «+»