The Little MOUNT of ST. THOMAS, near Madras.
After Daniel.
Small Map of the ST. THOMAS localities at Madras.
Ancient Christian CHURCH at PARUR or Palur, on the
Malabar Coast; from an engraving in Pearson’s
Life of Claudius Buchanan, after a sketch by
the latter.
SYRIAN CHURCH at Karanyachirra, showing the quasi-Jesuit
Facade generally adopted in modern times. From
the Life of Bishop Daniel Wilson.
INTERIOR of Syrian CHURCH at Koetteiyam. From
the same.
CAPE COMORIN. From an original sketch by Mr.
FOOTE of the Geological Survey of India.
MOUNT D’ELY. From a nautical sketch
of last century.
Mediaeval ARCHITECTURE in GUZERAT, being a view of
Gateway at Jinjawara, given in Forbes’s Ras
Mala. From Fergusson’s History of
Architecture.
The GATES of SOMNATH (so called), as preserved in
the British Arsenal at Agra. From a photograph
by Messrs. SHEPHERD and BOURNE, converted into an
elevation.
The RUKH, after a Persian drawing. From Lane’s
Arabian Nights.
Frontispiece of A. Mueller’s Marco Polo,
showing the Bird Rukh.
The ETHIOPIAN SHEEP. From a sketch by Miss Catherine
Frere.
View of ADEN in 1840. From a sketch by Dr. R.
KIRK in the Map-room of the
Royal Geographical Society.
The Harvest of FRANKINCENSE in Arabia. Facsimile
of an engraving in Thevet’s Cosmographie
Universelle (1575). Reproduced from Cassell’s
Bible Educator, by the courtesy of the publishers.
BOSWELLIA FREREANA, from a drawing by Mr. W.H.
FITCH. The use of this engraving is granted by
the India Museum through the kindness of Sir George
Birdwood.
A Persian BAD-GIR, or Wind-Catcher. From a drawing
in the Atlas to Hommaire de Hell’s Persia.
Engraved by ADENEY.
Tomb of OLJAITU KHAN, the brother of Polo’s
CASAN, at Sultaniah. From Fergusson’s
History of Architecture.
The Siberian DOG-SLEDGE. From the Tour du
Monde.
Mediaeval RUSSIAN Church. From Fergusson’s
History of Architecture.
Figure of a TARTAR under the Feet of Henry Duke of
Silesia, Cracow, and Poland, from the tomb at Breslau
of that Prince, killed in battle with the Tartar host,
9th April, 1241. After a plate in Schlesische
Fuerstenbilder des Mittelalters, Breslau, 1868.
Asiatic WARRIORS of Polo’s Age. From the
MS. of Rashiduddin’s History, noticed under
cut at p. 19. Engraved by ADENEY.
FIGURE of MARCO POLO, from the first printed edition
of his Book, published in German at Nuremberg 1477.
Traced from a copy in the Berlin Library. (This
tracing was the gift of Mr. Samuel D. Horton, of Cincinnati,
through Mr. Marsh.)
