'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.' [45] (106/360)
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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C 45 1
or canal are now fallen in, which is one of the
principal caufes of the decline of the trade, and
of courfe of the ruin of the city.
* ... . . _ . *■
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It has long been a favourite opinion amongft
the learned, both ancients and moderns, that the
Egyptians were acquainted with the arts and
fciences, when all the other people were in a
ftate of ignorance. We are told they difcovered
geometry in making the divifions of land, after
the annual overflowing of the Nile j that the
clearnefs of their atmofphere enabled them to
make aftronomical obfervations fooner than
other people; and that the fertility of their
country gave rife to trade, by enabling them to
fupply all their neighbours with corn and other
neceffaries of life. Thefe arguments are how
ever more fpecious than true, for if we owe the
difcovery of geometry to the overflowing of the
Nile, of aftronomy to the clearnefs of the at-
mofphere, and of trade to the fertility of the
foil j in that part of Hindoftan which is within
the tropic, there are flill larger rivers which
overflow annually, a clearer and a more
fertile foil. The Nile only once a year affords
a fupply of water to the countries on its banks,
and the fmali quantity of rain that falls there at
other
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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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