List headed 'The following views and sketches from natureare quarto size and are to be bound up with the letter press',ca 1797 (Series 62.02) - No. 0001

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The following views and sketches from nature are quarto size and are to be bound up with the letter-press.

No.1.  A Sketch of one of the banks of the Pei-ho shewing the regular manner in which mounds of earth are thrown up to prevent inundations in the rainy seasons.

2.  Punishment of the Cangue. This instrument is an immense table of wood fixed round the criminals' neck and is used for petty offences.

3.  The method of raising water out of the Eu-ho for the purposes of agriculture, with a basket worked by two men.

4.  Soldiers, among which is one of that class distinguished by the name of a Tyger of War in the attitude of defence.

5.  Portrait of a Chinese plough.

6.  Chain pumps and the modes of working them.

7.  Drawing of a bronze vessel in which the Priests burn Tin-foil &c.

8.  View of Si-lcha-mueso one of the Western Gates of Pekin [Peking]. 

9. & 10.  Two views of the rock and temple of Quang-yin-shan, a particular account of which is given in the journal.

11 & 12.  Two view in Yuron bay, one of a small village and the other of a Temple on Coopers island. In the latter is introduced one of the King of Cochin China's boats.