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Basire - A Pholey Town, Africa 1745 - This interesting engraving is Plate 153 from Vol 2 of A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels by John Green, published by Thomas Astley in 1745-47. The engraving by Isaac Basire is after an original drawing by Francis Moore and presents a walled village of the Fula people of the Senegambia region in West Africa. A key at top left identifies the guard-house for the cattle, cotton and corn crops, and a native carrying a log on his head. Size: 8.3in?x?5.8in (21.1cm?x?14.7?cm)