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A shoreline and human settlement.

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Drawing, double page panorama. 50v continues the midground--background features of 51r almost to the centre of the folio. An open but not calm sea horizon here is annotated: "reef". To its right a faintly outlined foreshore has a line of some half dozen distant palms, and a cluster of some half dozen closer palms, growing along it. At the right-hand edge of the folio, lower shrubby vegetation grows in front of a rising hill line. The annotation below reads: " white sandy beach". On 51r, the hill line continues, faintly outlined, and rising evenly to a high point in the centre right, from where it falls quickly out of sight behind the crowns of palm trees. On the lower slopes vertical surfaces and clefts are indicated by slight shading, and lower-level vegetated slopes descend to the far shoreline. In the centre left of the midground a small boat with a single curved mast and raised sail faces rightwards in calm water; a human figure stands in the stern, with another seated to the immediate right of the mast. In the centre right of the midground to the right-hand edge of the picture, the nearer shoreline is covered with a mix of low-growing leafy trees or shrubs, giving way to the right to tall palms, whose fronds are sketched in some detail. Beneath the vegetation, three pitched-roof single-storey buildings are visible, all shown `gable-on' to the viewer; the second from the left partly obscures the leftmost; the rightmost is larger and detached. Fencing divides these structures from the beach, which runs diagonally from left to right towards the viewer to an apex in the centre right of the picture, from where it turns quickly to sweep back leftwards into the bottom left-hand corner of the folio. In the centre to centre right of the foreground a fallen palm, still with fronds attached, blocks the whole beach; behind it at the water's edge, is a group of human figures, two standing either side of a third who is bending over to the right.

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