Great Asian Archipelago: French explorers with natives on the Island of Ombai Finish:none James Ash & Co were

James Ash & Co were builders of iron ships

the hiccory tree

Barges are moored in the foreground on the right and smaller vessels move about on the river

The plate is headed: 'Description de l'appareil employe pour mesurer la dilatation des fluides elastiques' [Description of the apparatus employed to measure the expansion of elastic fluids] and is inscribed below 'Floreal et Prairial An

Great Asian Archipelago: French explorers with natives on the Island of Ombai Finish:none James Ash & Co wereGreat Asian Archipelago: French explorers with natives on the Island of Ombai, 1822 1824. From Voyage Autour du Monde (1817 20) by Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet.