possibly related to David William Smyth Esqr., Surveyor General. London: see www.davidrumsey.com/maps3638.html
entered Royal Navy in April 1813, served as midshipman & mate on HMS Blossom under Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856) in the Pacific
Ireland
Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes & down the Amazon (London 1836) ; Account of the Rivers Amazon & Negro (1835) ; Frederick William Beechey: Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific & Beering's Strait (1831 / 32: 441f.) ;
captain Richard Beechey (1796-1856) ; Frederick Lowe ;
marine, zoological, ethnological, topographical, and geographical painting, watercolour, and drawing ;
