!['Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.' [‎17] (40/360)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023463357.0x000001/V 7506_0042.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.' [‎17] (40/360)")
'Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.' [17] (40/360)
The record is made up of 1 volume (270 pages). It was created in 1785. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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in general, and alio to open a new channel for
tranTmitting intelligence backwards and for
wards, between India and Europe. It is not
neceflary in this place to confider the merits of
the commercial part of this plan, fuffice it to
fay, that the Sherreef of Mecca very foon took
the alarm, and ufed all his influence both fpiri-
tual and temporal to put a Hop to its continu
ance. In his negociation at the Porte in this
bufinefs, he was zealoufly affifted alfo by a large
body of Turkifh merchants, who were appre-
henfive of fuifering by the prices of India goods
being lowered in their markets, which muft
have totally put an end to the old eftablifhed
trade of B flora and Aleppo. By fuch a weighty
concurrence of intereft an edid: was obtained
from the Grand Signior, which flripped of its
ofiicial tautology, and oriental hyperbole, con
tains no more than what follows.
" H istorians inform us, that the Chrif-
tians, an enterprizing and artful race, have
" from the earlieft times conftantly made ufe of
♦ $ deceit and violence to efFed: their ambitious
" purpofes. Under the difguife of merchants
" they formerly introduced themfelves into
" Damafcus and Jerufalem; in the fame man-
<£ ner
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Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates , authored by Colonel James Capper, published in London, and printed for W Faden, Geographer to the King, Charing Cross; J Robson, in the New Bond Street; and R Sewell, in Cornhill.
Edition: The third edition, with alterations and additions
Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxxvi); Octavo.
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There is no contents page or index detailing the arrangement or contents of the volume. A preface precedes the main body of the work.
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- 'Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:10, 1:38, 1:108, 108a:108b, 109:158, 158a:158b, 159:288, iv-r:vi-v, back-i
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- Capper, James
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