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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.' [‎19] (42/360)

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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[ xi» ]
eeediags of both parties in India, he would
hardly have ventured to make a comparifon
between them.
They are both equally ftrangers in that
Country. The Mahomedans unprovoked by
the Hindoos invaded and took pofleffion of their
country j whereas the Englifli introduced them-
felves as merchants, and carried on a trade very
profitable to the natives for upwards of an hun
dred years, without ever fhewing the leaft hoftile
difpofition againft either the peaceable Hindoos,
or the Mahomedan ufurpers. But after Surage ul
Dowla had exercifed the mofl: wanton cruelty on
the Company's fervants, by caufing a number of
them to be fufFocated in the black hole of Calcutta;
to revenge their deaths, and to preferve our com
mercial privileges which we held by grant from
the Court of Delhi, we firft took up arms in Ben
gal : nor can the moft rigid moralift and much lefs
the Grand Signior find any caufe to cenfure our
condudtin thus vindicating the honour andintereft
of our country*. It is true that Hindoftan has
been
* T he diiFerent condufl of the ChriiUans and Mahomedans
in India will appear in a more Uriking point of view from th«
relation

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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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1 volume (270 pages)
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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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Dimensions: 237mm x 157mm.

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