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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.' [‎33] (56/360)

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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[ xxxiii |
Rofetta, or Damietta; and of reimbarking
them at one of thofe places for the European
Markets; and they will find that goods fent
round the Cape of Godd Hope at a proper feafon,
and fubjed: to no expence, or danger of being
fpoilt on the way, would come at leaft fifty
per cent, cheaper to any market in Europe.
W hen the Venetians loft the India trade,
no violence, no fineffe was ufed to deprive them
of it j the trade died away of itfelf, becaufe
the Portugeze and other European nations,
paffing round the Cape of Good Hope, could
by means of the fhortnefs and ^afety of the
voyage, afford to under-fell them in thofe arti
cles of India commerce which they received
only by the more tedious, dangerous, and ex-
penfive channel of the Red Sea: But the proba
bility of the danger of the trade by this route
becoming prejudicial to ours by the Cape of
Good Hope, being admitted in its fullefl extent j
are we to fuppofe that other European nations
are Co blind to their own intereft, fo ftrangely'
ignorant, or fo abfurdly indolent, as not to
difcover it, ?ind immediately avail themfelves
of their knowledge ? If goods can realy be
brought cheaper from India to Europe that way,
in

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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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Dimensions: 237mm x 157mm.

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