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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.' [‎456] (509/562)

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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[ 4J6 ]
APPENDIX,
N o . ir.
Indian Trees, Shrubs, Plants , and Medicines.
C ocoa -N ut T ree.
ALTHOUGH mention hath already been made of the Cocoa -nut
tree, yet as its produflions are of fuch great confequence to the
natives of the Eaft Indies, I cannot avoid prefenting it a fecond time to
the notice of the reader. It has neither bark nor branch, increafes an
nually, and at length gets to a prodigious height. Some of the trees arc
of 50 years (landing, and 60 feet high, but none are ever more than 18
inches diameter. The root is compofed of a great number of black
foft fibres, which are tough, 15 or 16 inches long, and of the thicknefs of
a goofe quill. The body, or ftalk, is fingle, and full of tough, perpendi
cular, and oblique fibres. A bundle of leaves fhoot out annually in a kind
of fpatha from the top of the ftalk, and is concave towards the centre of
the plant; when thefe leaves firft fhoot out and open fully, they are per
pendicular, and then the leaves of the laft year are gradually forced from
them, and become horizontal. Thofe of the preceding year fall off, or arc
cut down by the Toddy gatherers. The old leaves are compofed of a
ftrong and large middle rib, which fometimes next to the body of the
tree is as thick as a man's thigh, and 18 or 20 feet in length. From the
bundle all around the tree, leaves of two feet or more in length Toon grow,
thefe are double at the bafe, affixed to the rib, and grow taper to a point at
the end ; thefe leaves ftand very clofe together, and at the top of the tree
form an almoft perfedl, and pretty looking circle. The flower comes out
from the concave part of the leaves on the top of the tree •, the footftalk
of which is as thick as a large man's wrift, and nearly round; this di
vides and fubdivides into many branches, among which are the flowers,
fend which in lome lort refemble the feed-veflel of our common plantain.
When

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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.' [‎456] (509/562), British Library: Printed Collections, W 4137, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023905684.0x00006e> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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