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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.' [273] (314/562)
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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About five in the evening, we entered the old town, or that which lies
weft of the Tygns. We paffed the river by a bridge of thirty-nine boats
floored with Date trees, flags, horfe-dung, and flime or mud • it is very
badly railed. This bridge brought us to the new city, on the'eaft of the
river. Both cities are built with bricks, and mud ; this on the eaft fide is
walled round. The public buildings are better than thole of but
the beft would be efteemed unfit for a private gentleman of a thoufand
pounds a year in England. The ftreets are very narrow, the Bazars lontr
generally roofed m the gothic tafte, but fome which have been lately re
paired or rebuilt, are only clumfily covered with Date trees, and mud : holes
are left in the roof at certain diftances, for the admittance of light and air
At fix we got to Mr. Garden's houfe. Soon after, I drank fome milk, and
* went to bed, not a little fatigued.
The following are the refpeftive diftances of the principal places, lyino-
on the Euphrates, between Bajfora and Baghdad. *
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From Bajfora to Coma — — — ^ *
From Coma to Cot a — — — — (3^
From Cota to Semava — — —
From Semava to Lemhloon — —
Vxom Lemhloon X.o Hajca — — — — o r
From Hajca to Hilla — — — ^2
From Hilla to Baghdad, — — — — 50
mon, about fourteen hands, or fourteen and a half high, handfome, light, and fpirlted.
They never dock their tails, and it is reckoned a difgrace for a gentleman or foldier to mount
a gelding or a mare.
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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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- W 4137
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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.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1, 1a:1d, 2:12, 1:32, 32a:32b, 33:44, 44a:44b, 45:80, 80a:80b, 81:84, 84a:84b, 85:86, 86a:86b, 87:88, 88a:88b, 89:224, 224a:224b, 225:230, 230a:230b, 231:278, 278a:278b, 279:288, 288a:288b, 289:292, 292a:292b, 293:298, 298a:298b, 299:318, 318a:318b, 319:364, 364a:364b, 365:506, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
- Author
- Ives, Edward
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