The rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes 55, Trochilinae hummingbirds 56 and man reading a book by the light of fireflies in a vial 57. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor’s Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travelers, John Harris, London, 1821.

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