A watercolor illustration of the biodiversity that naturalist William Bartram encountered during his travels through the southeast U.S. during the late eighteenth century. The image includes an American lotus seed pod, a water snake eating a frog, a snail, a hummingbird, a dragonfly, pickerel weed, and arrowleaf.
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