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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.' [‎470] (523/562)

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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reddifii at bottom, but woolly above, where it forms a kind of head, and
throws out above twenty ere<5l fibres four inches long, round, red,' and
woolly : on two thirds of the outer ones are the leaves, of a fine green colour.
On the top of the remaining third part of the fibres are the flowers, five
on each, the calyx is green, corolla yellow. The root is powdered and
applied to wounds.
K aoon.
1 he root is tuberous and like ginger: the (lalk grows upwards five feet,
and is 4 of an inch in diameter, of a brownifh green colour, jointed regu
larly at the diftance of three inches. The leaves grow near the top alter
nately, diftant from each other three inches; they are foft, and furround
the (talk at their bale. 1 he flower is compofed of a few green-coloured
fquamma: on the top of the ftalk. The fruit is a triangular pod, which
contains numerous black angular feeds.
D unqueen.
The^ root is as big as a goofe-quill, goes down perpendicularly, fend
ing oil lateral fhoots. I he ftalk is round, green, and of the thicknefs of
the loot, but foon divides into five or fix branches. The leaves grow at
the joints, at the diftance of five inches from each other, upon a petiole
ot three inches; they are hairy and of a deep green colour; in the alas of
thefe grow the flowers. The juice of it allays thirft in fevers.
s00nrage.
The root is a bundle of thick fhort perpendicular fibres. The ftalk is as
thick as a man's finger, grows erecfl, and to the height of two feet, but
naked T of its length, jointed regularly at the diftance of one inch. On
the upper third joints, the pale green leaves alternately grow, and furround
the ftalk. 1 he flowers grow in fquamous heads on the top of every
ftalk. The juice is given in fevers ; and the leaf and root when pounded
is applied as a repellent to fwellings in the groin.
C onic C hampow.
•iT!rr ^ row . s 1:0 a to^^ble large tree, and fpreads very muchj its leaves
will dilcover it from every other tree; they are of a pale but fhining green, and
rsn l' 11 8 row roun d the end of every branch in a radiated manner.
hen the leaves tall off, the part they broke from becomes a feparate branch,
at the end of which, fix other fuch leaves fhoot our. In the center of thofe
ladn, another branch is produced with fix more leaves, and were it not
tor accidents the tree would grow regularly tall. The flowers I have never
een. The fruit confifts of many long flenderpods, which are but very little
thicker

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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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