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A coastal land/seascape, with note of compass point and colouring instructions.

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Drawing. The sky is blank, annotated in the top centre: "N", above a tall jagged peak, which is the most distant horizon feature, and may be identical with the main mountain in MS.Add.7984: 40, seen from a greater distance. To its left and from below it, a ridge rises from the centre to the left, crowned by three small well detached groups of trees projecting against the sky; the rest of the ridge appears verdant, with bushy vegetation on the steepish slopes below, from which taller trees occasionally protrude. To the right, there is a slightly more distant and rockier hill countour running from the centre to the right of the picture, with slight indications of structure and vegetation. In the midground, at the left, centre, and right, there are three well detached single-storey pitched roof buildings. Those to the left and centre have indications of thatch, but their sides are obscured by fencing and occasional vegetation. The right-hand building is taller, with five windows on its visible aspect, but the remainder of the building, including most of the roof, is obscured by a substantial clump of densely leafy trees, to whose left two tall palms are growing. Behind and between the left-hand and centre buildings, the vegetation is a mixture of palm trees, bushes, and leafy trees somewhat resembling the breadfruits illustrated in MS.Add.7984: 48, with a prominent palm protruding in the left centre. In front of fencing, a thin strip of beach crosses the whole foreground, turning to sweep towards the viewer at the left-hand edge. Two small canoes and two associated seated figures are visible at the water's edge near the apex of the curve, in front of the left-hand building. To the right of these figures and closer to the viewer, another figure stands ankle-deep in the water, facing right. A little further to the right on the beach there is a group of five more distant figures, three standing, two seated. To their right near the central building, two bushes are growing. At the right-hand edge of the picture, a more distant stretch of shoreline is visible, less distinctly sketched, but with a similar low building in front of a mix of bushes and palms. The water is calm, annotated: "dark water". The annotation in the right corner reads: "all trees very rich green -- the Chapels -- white". Shading may indicate that the sun is shining from the right and somewhat towards the viewer (ie from somewhat north of east, implying early to mid morning).

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