Steam Navigation to Internal and External Communications of India, Volume 8

Content

Papers and correspondence relating to the journals and diaries of explorations in the area of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding waters in the context of improving navigation and communications between England and India.

A list of contents is given on folio 10:

• 'Captain Mark Wood's Narrative of his Overland journey, 1779-1780' (ff 12-55)
• 'Mr R. Scott's Letter on the Passage over the Isthmus of Suez, and project of a new route to India, 1780' (ff 56-84)
• 'Mr D. Talamas: correspondence relative to compensation for carrying overland Dispatches, 1783' (ff 85-94)
• 'Lieut S. Hunter's Narrative of his Overland Journey with Dispatches, and documents connected with his expences, 1792' (ff 95-111)
• 'Correspondence between the Court and Indian Governments on Deficiency of Intelligence, 1785 to 1803' (ff 112-129)
• 'Fragment of a Narrative on an Overland journey to India' (ff 130-138)
• 'Captain J. Wainwright Remarks on the navigation of the Persian Gulph, 1809-1810' (ff 139-166)
• 'Captn Sadler's Diary of his Mysion to Arabia, 1819-20' (ff 167-339)
• 'Captn Bedford's Journals of the Survey of the Burrampooter River, 1824-1825' (ff 340-423)
• 'Lieutenant Wellsted's Memoir regarding the Red Sea and Steam Navigation between Europe and India, 1832' (ff 424-539)
• 'Lieut. Wybards's Journal of an Excursion into Arabia' (ff 540-565)
• 'Memoir on the Arab Tribes on the Banks of the Euphrates and Tigris' (ff 566-584).

The volume also includes a sketch map (folio 585v): 'A Map of the Oases of El Hasa'.

Extent and format

1 volume (587 folios)

It is grouped into

'Captain Mark Wood's Narrative of his Overland Journey, 1779-1780'

88 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 12-55

'Mr R. Scott's Letter on the Passage over the Isthmus of Suez, and Project of a New Route to India, 1780'

58 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 56-84

'Mr D. Talamas. Correspondence relative to Compensation to him for carrying overland Dispatches. 1783'

20 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 85-94

'Lieut S. Hunter's Narrative of his Overland Journey in 1792 with Dispatches and documents connected with his Expences'

34 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 95-111

'Correspondence with the Indian Governments 1785 to 1803 respecting Deficiency of Intelligence.'

36 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 112-129

'Fragment of a Narrative of an Overland Journey to India'

18 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 130-138

'Captain J. Wainwright's Remarks on the Navigation of the Persian Gulph. 1811'

56 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 139-166

'Captn Sadlier's Diary of his Mission to Arabia, 1819-20.'

346 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 167-339

'Journals of the Survey of Captain James Bedford 48th Regnt N.I. on the Burrampooter or Bruhmaputra River, within Assam, in 1824 and 1825.'

168 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 340-423

'Lieutenant Wellsted's Memoir regarding the Red Sea and Steam Navigation between Europe and India, 1832'

232 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 424-539

'Lieutenant Wybard's Journal of an Excursion into Arabia'

52 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 540-565

'A MAP of THE OASES of El HASA'

1 image

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, f 585v

'Memoir on the Arab Tribes on the Banks of the Euphrates and Tigris'

38 images

Ref: IOR/L/MAR/C/570, ff 566-584

Arrangement

The volume is arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 599; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, present between ff 4-95, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Pagination: The file also contains an original printed pagination sequence which runs in parallel between ff 14-586 and additional intermittent pagination sequences which are written in pencil, but are not circled.

The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 587-598, which have not been digitised.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/MAR/C/570

History of this record

Date(s)

1780-1832 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

LighthousesVesselsHarbours

Places

Red SeaKurrachee

People & organisations

Council of India

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