Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct. [2]

Illustrators:

N, pseud.  [William Newman] *

Subjects:

Exploration, Natural History, Botany, Zoology, Vulcanology, Mapping

People mentioned:

James C Ross , William E Parry

    Responding to the Builder's notion of popularizing the 'inclosure' of Lincoln's Inn Fields, claims that this territory has a geography 'beyond comprehension' and needs a 'regularly qualified surveyor' to report on its 'Botany, Zoology and other natural features'. The illustrations show the map of the fields furnished by 'rumour', and a representation of supposed animals in the woods of the region. The map includes such unlikely features as a supposed extinct volcano and a town.