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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.' [‎190] (227/562)

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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greateft rains. They are alio very wide, and have a beautiful row of
trees on each fide, between which and the houfes, is a very fmooth and
regular pavement. Between each tree too, there is a very fine and rcfrcfh-
ing grafs verdure, equal, if not fuperior to what we fee in the beft walks
of the molt noted gardens in England. The llreets likewife all crofs each
other at right angles, and upon the whole are fo elegantly difpofed, and fo
very unlike any thing of the kind we had before feen in India, that we could
not help admiring the fuperior fkill and ingenuity of the Dutch.
After we had fatisfied our curiofity in viewing the beauty and recrula-
rity of the buildings, we walked to the extremities of the tov/n, to ex
amine the fortifications, which towards the fea are but indifferent. Indeed
there is no neceffity for that part being very ftrong, as no enemy can ap
proach near enough to do them any confiderable damage; they have wifelv
therefore turned their chief itrength towards the land, and have fo well
executed their defigns, we may venture to fay, that all the Europeans ip
India, colleded into one army, would be able to make very little, if any'
impreflion at all upon the place. The citadel is of an irregular figure,
occafioned by the form of the ground on which it {lands; the wall feems to
be built of very good and large (tones ; the baftions are very extenfive; and
round moit part of the town there is a double wall. Here is alio a wet
ditch, full fixty feet wide, and a covered way, and^Wj, where the ground
will admit of it. The Butch zx. this place, feem to be as capable of defending
themfelves againft an enemy by the good difpofition they have likewife
made of their water, as by the ftrength of their fortifications; for they have
fo contrived it, that a man cannot poffibly approach the citadel under any
cover, though at a little diftance a Itranger would be apt to imagine, that
the whole town was built in a wood. There is always a garrifon here of
thirteen hundred Europeansj all fine looking, healthy young men ; for in our
whole day's walk we did not fee three foldiers who appeared to be forty
years of age. Among other military and naval ftores, we could not help
taking notice of a great number of fine mafts, fome of which appeared as
large as the middle piece of a feventy gun ihip's main-maft.
e weie introduced to the governor of Columho, (who from his lofty
deportment towards us, and the great authority he pofTefies in this part of
the world, may be juflly ftiled High and Mighty) by Mynheer Planchard,
his matter of ceremonies ; but our reception was fo cool, that we entertained
a veiy mean opinion of the governor's civility to itrangers. As to Planchardy
Ins open countenance befpoke a mind quite happy and at eafe, and he very
lociably drank his bottle of wine with us at the public houfe the firft night
alter our arrival ; but never took the leaft notice of. us afterwards. This
change m his behaviour, was in all probability owing to the influence of
Mynheer shrewder the governor; between whom and Commodore Jmes
no in o civilities had paft, as the manner of faluting, and returning the
lalute, could not be adjulted between them. We obferved nothing worthy
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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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