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'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎32] (57/562)

The record is made up of 1 volume (518 pages). It was created in 1866. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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their devotions, which they hurried over with great rapidity *. I looked on
i f or a confiderable time with great attention, and afterwards learned from a
fervant of the admiral's who was of this cafty that one^ ot them was a
pricft, then on a vifit to another prieft in a fit of ficknefs. 1 his fervant like-
wife told me, that the -f- Perfees have fuch a veneration for fire, that they
never put it out, or fo much as breathe upon it; and I took particular notice,
that while thefe priefts were at prayers over the pan of coals, they had
a X kind of little white bib over their mouth, as 1 imagined, to prevent
their § breathing on their favourite element. The prayers appeared to me,
to be only a repetition of the fame let of words, from the fimilarity of their
founds. The vifiting prieft ufed manygeftures with his hands over the fire,
and afterwards ftrokeddown the face of the fick prieft, which I looked upon
as the final benediftion, for prefcntly afterward the ceremony ended. This
inftance, ftrongly corroborates Prideaux's obfervation concerning their ufage
at public worfhip. " The priefts themfelves never approach this fire in their
temples but with a cloth over their mouths, that they might not breathe
thereon: and this they did not only when they tended the fire to lay ou
more wood, or do any other fervice about it, but alfo when they ap
proached to read the daily offices of their liturgy before it. So that they
mumbled over their prayers, rather than fpoke them, in the fame manner as
the Romijh priefts do their maffes, without letting the people prefent articu
lately hear one word of what they faid HU."
Thefe poor mifguided people proftrate themfelves before the fun under
the fame notion that the Gentoos reverence an ox or a cow: from the excel
lent qualities they obferve in thefe created beings, and their great ufeful-
nefs, each is induced to fuppofe that the godhead dots moft certainly dwell in
them, and under this miftaken notion they blindly pay that homage to the crea
ture, which is only due to the creator. As the Gentoos burn their dead, one
would think that the Perfees, who are fofond of worfhipping their deity under
the reprefentation of fire, fhould bedefirous of having their dead bodies com
mitted to that element, wherein they fuppofe their creator principally to refide.
But contrary to this, and to the cuftom of all other nations in the world, they
neither burn nor bury their dead, but caft them out in die open air, to be
expofed to the feveral elements, where they are foon devoured by eagles,
vultures, and other birds of prey \\. The principle they go upon is, that a living
man being compounded of all the elements, it is but reafonable, after he is
* Sonora voce per femi-horam memoriter recitant ta:diofam aliquam precandi formulam :
& tanta celeritate hoc faciunt, ut vix halitum reciprocare Jiceat, quafi invincibilis efiet necef-
Jltas earn verborum formulam tantillo tempore recitare. H yde a V Religione •veterum Perfarunt,
cap. 34.
f Perfe inPyreis alunt perpetuum Ignemlignis mundis & decordcatls. H vde .
t Dumifto mode Sacerdotes garriebant, eorum facies obvelata; erant, charta alba per tranf-
verfum vultum utrique auri affixa, qua: duo aut tres uncias infra mentum dependebat. H yde.
§ Grande Piaculura Sc morte pleftendum, excuflb ex ore halitu ignem inflarc. S trabo y«^
jintm, lib. xv.
1111 P rid. Connexion, book iv.
K In capfa emm ahqua vel loculo condere, vel etiam terra obtumulare, neutiquam fas efl-
nunt Hvde c panter atque avibus obrcaenis » momum cadaver devprandum expo-
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A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.

Publication Details: London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773.

Ownership: With stamps of the India Board and India Board Library.

There are numerous illustrations and two maps in the volume:

  • a copy of a large folded map at the beginning of the volume, 'A Map of India together with a chart of the Indien Seas, to which the operations of Admiral Watson's Squadron were principally confined; and shewing the passages made by Commodore James from Madrass to Bombay in the years 1754 & 1755 ... By Thomas Kitchin, Hydrographer to his Majesty';
  • a map of the route from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in Basra to Latakia, Syria, on the Mediterranean Coast 'Mr Ives's Route from Bassora to Latichea.
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1 volume (518 pages)
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There is a table of content at the beginning of the volume, detailing the arrangement of contents and page references (pages viii-xi) and a 'Table of Coins and Monies' (page xii).

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Dimensions: 280 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xii); (1-506).

Condition: there is a large folded map, unfolding can be difficult withouth risk of tears.

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