An India that’s a hop, skip, and jump away. Plates from Robert Montgomery Martin’s 1858 work about India. Martin wrote several books dealing with various parts of the British Empire.

Plates (llustrations) from books 1 Minute
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“Mohuna, near Deobun.” Page 23. W. J. Cook, engraver. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/indianempireitsh02mart/page/n23/mode/2up
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“The Choor Mountains,” drawn from nature by G. F. White. Page 27. J. Tingle, engraver. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/indianempireitsh02mart/page/n27/mode/2up
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“Gungootree, the Sacred Source of the Ganges,” drawn from nature by G. F. White. Page 30. J. H. Kernot, engraver. Collections of and digitalized by the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/indianempireitsh02mart/page/n29/mode/2up

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