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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.' [‎432] (485/562)

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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Milten-
bovrg.
O ffen-
BOURQ.
[ 432 1
public boufes, veal being the only butcher's meat we have been ferved
with Forefts are ftill about us, whofe timber chiefly confifts of oak and
fir The fides of the hills in this country are formed into regular flairs, and
neatly difpofed into vineyards, which is a piece of hufbandry we have net
before feen, firnce we left Italy.
The drefs of the women's heads hereabouts, differs from that of the Ita Jans
and Tirolefi. Their caps are of another make, and they keep their mouths
muffled in the fame manner, as the Armenian women do in Afta. The
laft adopt this cuftom through modefty, but probably the reafon for the
German females doing it at this time, is to defend their lips from the feventy
of the weather. The feveral apartments of the houfes in Germany, are all
made warm by clofe ftoves. The fire is never feen in the rooms, neither
have they any chimnies in them, but this occafions the air to be difagre*.
able and unwholefome.
AVe got to Miltenhourg from Huntein a little after one o clock in the after
noon ; from whence we let out for Offenbourg, and arrived there at a quarter
after two. Offenbourg is feated on the fouth fide of the river Maine, a large,
but old falhioned, ill-built town. The houfes, like thofe of the other places
I have feen in Germany, have too great a quantity of timber in them ; fo much,
that Ihould a fire at any time take place amongft them, the confequences mult
be dreadful ! The country-houfes belonging to the nobility anti gentry in
the neighbourhood, are large, and heavily built j they have generally domes,
and four towers around them.
At half after three o'clock in the afternoon, we left Offenbourg, and con
tinued to travel on the left, or fouth fide of the Maine, whofe banks are here
neatly cultivated, and formed into the fame kind of vineyards, before
noticed, with flights of fteps, all faced with Hone, and theiefore in t £
fummer feafon, muft afford a very pleafing view from the river. On
the lands adjacent, many flocks of Iheep are now feeding, and various forts
of wild-fowl fwimming in the ftream.
At half pafl five we reached Afchaffenbourg, a well -fortified town
belonging to the eledor of Mayence or Mentz, who has a fpacious, but in
elegant palace here. The place ftands partly on a hill, and partly in a
bottom, and has a good ftone bridge of twelve arches built over the
Maine. Fifteen hundred French troops were in garrifon, at the time of our
arrival. We fell into converfation at the poft-office with an obliging, fenli-
ble Abbe of that nation, who advifed us not to entertain a thought ot going
farther than Dettingen for the night, as he was very confident that the gates
of Hanau would not be opened for us until the morning. We kft 4f c ^'
fenbourg at fix in the evening, and at eight reached the village of Vet-
iingen.
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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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