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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.' [‎495] (548/562)

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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G ingilla S eed.
This is the Se/amum of Dr. HJIL They ufe its oil to fry their flefh or fifh
in, and preferve the feeds as iweetmeats, and deeiti them to be ftrength-
ners. ,
S aume de C hute.
This is a very pretty fhrub-like plant, in height fometimes more
than 12 or 14 feet. The bark is grey below, and green above. The leaves
are very fm all and tender, of a pale bur pleafant green colour^ oval in fhape,
and half an inch in length ; doubly pinnated, with eight or ten pair
growing on each fide-pinna. The flower is fometimes yellow, fometimes
purple, grows on fpikes, and is of the fhape of the pea-blolfom. The
fruit is a (lender pod, of the thicknefs of a pack-thread, containing oblong
truncated feeds j they are firft of a brownilh black, but when ripe, are
brown, and look on the tree, where they plenteoufly hang, like fo many-
pieces of pack-thread. The leaves fried with Ghee are ufed as a fuppurating
cataplaim.
M arricallanga. Semen emetkum novum,
I have never feen the tree, but they tell me that it is a large one. I
had fome of its branches brought to me, which were like the branches of
our Barberry, and equally as thick j they are of a great length, and,
fend forth but a fmall number of the fmaller branches. The bark is
greyifh, the wood is tough j at the diflance of two or three inches through
out the branches, there grow two very long fharp fpines, which are oppolite
to each other, and under each of thefe, Ihoot out five or fix fmall luboval
leaves the fmalleft end being elongated ferves as a pedicle in the manner
of our thorn. In the middle of thofe leaves on a fhort pedicle ftand the
fruit, which when green are oval, and have an eye like the pomegranate;
when ripe, they are nearly round, and of the fize and colour of a walnut;
the fkin is rough, but breaks almoft as foon as it is bended; in
the infide, the fruit is divided into three partitions like the walnut, and
thefe are full of reddifh feeds, that are oleous, and when firft tailed, a little
aromatic-, in fhape they are the 5th or 6th of a circle cut from the circum
ference to the center, and fome of them are angular without the convexity.
Thefe feeds with the hulks when, powdered is in look, fmell, and tafte, like
the powder of Ipecacuanha, and an equal quantity of each operates alike.
They are to be had almoft all over India, and are fo cheap that the
price is hardly worthy of mention, for a bufhel will not coft more than
a rupee. The black people have always been acquainted with their ufefui,
properties, and frequently ufe them in medicine. But the European furgeons.
according to Mr. Thomas's obfervations, until he himfelf introduced them
into practice (which was after that he fucceeded me as furgeon to his
majefty's hofpital) feemed to be altogether unacquainted with them.
A loes,

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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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