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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.' [‎214] (251/562)

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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return of the cruizers. In two or three days they appeared, to the nofmall
joy of the Bar en. And now, the Turks, who before were prevented from
failing by what they thought prudential reafons, were to their inexprefllble
furprize, compelled to ftay by force. x The hoftiiities committed by the two
cruizers at the mouth of the river, had given the government at Bajfora the
mof: fenfible alarm but how greatly was it increafed, when the news arri?ed
of the Baron's having detained the two rich fliips, which they had been
anxioufly expecting from Sural! They immediately wrote to him, offering
to pay back the 100,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , and in ail other refpetfts to come to an
amicable accommodation. The terms were readily accepted of, the
was paid, and the
reimburled M\uteer
an
money
government of Btrlra, and the Baron 'who oenerouflv
- and the Banian Merchant of Indian extraction. their (hare), havelronunued
on a friendly footing ever fince.
Having circumftamially given the particulars of the Barents hiftory rela-
tive to his firll fettling at Karec, 1 fhall fubjoin a defcription of the ftate of
ihat little iQand, at the time of our arrival. The fort is a fquare, built
of itone, with four ballions, each of which hath eight guns mounted upon
it •, fix of thefe were in the two faces, and the others were fo contrived as to
flank the two curtains. Before the gate, facing the fea, was a battery or
ravelin, with twelve guns mounted, from fix to eighteen pounders. There
were alio thirty or forty more of various fizes lying upon the ground, for
want of carriages. This irregularity in the weight of cannon, was owing to
the Baron's being obliged to get them as he could from different Ihips, and
at feveral times. An efplanade alio extended itfelf about 200 yards, be
yond which, they had juft finifhed fome houfes for Europeans to dwell in,
and a wall, which joined to thole houfes. This wall, it was deCgned,
Ihould hereafter be continued from fea to fea, as a fecurity to the fort and
the inhabitants within. It ran nearly north-weft and fouth-eaft. —The fort
was garrisoned with an hundred European foldiers. There was alfo a trian
gular baition at the north-weft end of the iGand, mounted with fix guns;
two of thcle pointed towards the lea, two to the lhare, and the other two were
to nanK the intended curtain-wall ot the town. About mid-way between
this north weft point and the forr, there was a fmall pier -head of ftone-
work, deligned to protect a little haven, whither all the Trankns, GaUkats,
and : :.kcias run, when the louth wind blows hard, and where they lay in
perrec: fecurity. In this haven we faw two or three armed GaUhais, with
Hx or eight carnage guns, which is luperior to any force the Turks or their
neighoours have in theic leas. L pon the whole, the Barcn had made a
iUrpnzing progreis :or tr .e little time he had been upon the ifland, and it
t -■ ) appeared to us, tnat he intended to make it a very ftrong and
wealthy place.
In the miuu.e cr this ifland, are very high hills, which abound with a
variety or ihell?. Some iragrr .ents torn from their fides, gave us an op
portuait) ci discovering feveral yards under the furface, an allonifhing
quanriry

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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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