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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.' [‎338] (389/562)

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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[ 338 ]
I learned laft night, that at the foot of one of the Cottrdijian mountains,
were ftill a few gardens in fome fort of order, particularly one which is
called an hermitage, and belonged once to a Chriftian Patriarch i the houfe is
in ruins, but fome of the trees remain. Upon hearing this, I ordered a per-
fon to be fent to the fpot j but he returned with only a plate of walnuts, and
they not quite ripe.
Saturday night laft, about eleven o'clock, I was taken with a fmall fhiver-
ing and yawning, which foon went off; but the next evening about feven
o'clock I found a tightnefs on the abdomen, with fome bilious twitchings
about the du6ts of the gall bladder : all my joints fo ached that I was not
able to ftand, or walk, but with pain and difficulty. I laid myfelf down in
hopes of deep, and found that pofiure the moft agreeable ; but the per
plexity from the Mufchetos (which are now again become troublelbme) and
from a flie, which though fo fmall as fcarcely to be perceived, yet leaves
a fting behind not much lefs painful than that of the MufchetOy added to
the fatigue of my complaint, made the night pafs very uncomfortably.
This morning I was in fome meafure relieved by a difcharge of bile; and
in the evening took an Ipecacuana vomit, which was of great fervice..
As I could not on this account accompany my brethren about the town
and its ruins, I muft therefore infert here fome notes made by the other
gentlemen, in our common journal. " Here is a building that has fome-
" what of the appearance of a caftle, but we faw no guns mounted on it*
There is alfo a ftone Mofque with a Minaret ; and a little way to the
eaftward of the town, is an old Chriftian church, which muft once have
been a very large and noble building by the remains: two capitals of
pillars, which fupported an handfome arch, are to be feen above ground,
" and a fmall part of the arch is ftill remaining; but the pillars are buried
" under the ruins. About icq yards from the church are five large co
lumns of the Corinthian order, the greateft part of which are alfo buriecU
thefe they tell you were once part of the building, and it is not
improbable but in the time of the Romans it might have been a
temple."
At half paft eight in the evening, we left Nijthin and the great Caravaity
taking with us twenty foot foldiers; two companies of cavalry joined us
likewife, who are going to Merdin. At ten we paffed a ruin on the right,
called Serka Kaun, and at five in the morning, another to the left. The
country hath the fame face as what we lately pafled. Near Nifibin. we
paffed feveral runs of water.
This night, a falfe alarm was given to oilr little Caravan of robbers
being in fight, which put us all on our guard; but there feemed to be no
foundation for it, it was rather a piece of pleafantry by our Turkijh foltiiers.
'A lirtlfi

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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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