!['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.' [‎35] (58/360)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023463357.0x000001/V 7506_0060.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.' [‎35] (58/360)")
'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.' [35] (58/360)
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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[ XXJtV ]
T he way to India by Baflbra is fatiguing,
and rather dangerous, and confequently Will
feldom be taken by choice, or for the bare gra
tification of curiofity; but as fome of the com
pany's fervants may be obliged to pafs over the
great Defert on public bufinefs, 1 think it in
cumbent on me to furnifh them with all the
information in my power, that they may ex
ecute the orders of their employers with fafety
and difpatch j and alfo perform the journey
with all poffible convenience to themfelves.
For this purpofe I fhall fubjoin to this work
the copy of a journal I kept when going that
route, and as a common itinerary would be
very uninterefting to moil readers, I fliall in-
terfperfe in it fome anecdotes and remarks,
which I truft will be deemed both amufing
and ufeful.
B y the feveral ways of the Cape of Good
Hope, Suez, and Baffora, we fhall be able to
fend difpatches to and from India at all feafons j
but being excluded from any one of them,
there will be an anxious interval of fome months
in every year, when we fhall mutually be ig
norant of what is paffing in the different coun
tries. The |jefl feafon for leaving England, to
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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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- '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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