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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.' [‎342] (393/562)

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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C H A P. VI.
Occurrences on the road from Merdin to Diarbekir, with a defcription of that
city.— Account of the famine there.—We leave Diarbekir, and join the Bafha
Abdallah. Face of the country we travel over.—Account of fome Arabs and
their flocks. "The Baftia's deportment to us,—We arrive at Bir; Defcription
cf that dty, — Obfervations in our journey from that place to Sajuera and
Aleppo.
jk BOUT half pafc fix in the evening we left Arin y and travelled towards
±\. Merdin. In two hours we got near the foot of the mountain on
ja 7 19 * which that city (lands i and pafied by another dead human body lying in the
road, very much torn either by wild beafts, or the fowls of heaven. Ihe
cartilages were quite frefh, and part of the ragged covering ftill remained.
On the left hand leading up to the mount of Merdin, are the remains of
a fmall town. We left Merdin on our right, and from eight to ten we were
afcending the Courdijian hills, over fome parts of which we had great diffi
culty to get our Takht Revans, the roads being narrow and rocky.
From Arin to the mountain of Merdin, we marched five miles a N. N. W.
courfe i for the next two hours a N. eafterly one, over a very mountainous
July 20. country; and from twelve at night to four in the morning, we travelled
a courfe from N. W. to N. E, changing very often two, three, or lour
points of the compafs. At four we relied in a pleafant meadow covered
with trefoil, by the fide of a beautiful rivulet, and continued there fome
hours. The frefli recruit of fpirits we received on breathing the cool air
of the mountains, and our joy in paffing through a country covered every
where with fo beautiful a verdure, can only be conceived by thofe few
Europeans, who, like us, have travelled over this fultry part of the world in
the hotted feafon of the year.
At eight o'clock we renewed our march through a mod delightful country
c^^leafant bufhy hills well-cultivated, and verdant dales interfeded with manv
a run-

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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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'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.' [‎342] (393/562), British Library: Printed Collections, W 4137, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023905683.0x0000c2> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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