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The record is made up of 1 volume (270 pages). It was created in 1785. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .

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' 00n « forwarded by exprefs the fame evening, together
!renot with an account of your arrival to the principal
S 0 Bey of Cairo, who is called Sheick Belled. It
would not be prudent to write any fecrets in the
letter, but you may fend inftrudlions concerning
your journey, and diredlions to have a velfel
prepared for you at Alexandria. Your rank you
eafilylt may conceal or mention as you, think proper.
In my opinion fuppoling they have no reafon to
papptB fufped; you of carrying money or jewels to any
irdtots. great amount, it would be better to make your-
tkoicti felf known. They may indeed expeil prefents
Gorai accordingly, but then their attention to you will
"mil ill a ^ 0 be proportioned to your liberality to them ;
ill quail. the difference of expence will be but trifling to
lich are a m an of fortuqe, and the conveniences you will
As the derive from being thought a perfon of high fla-
ifualto tion wil1 be very great. Lord A. Percy who
atertaia was at Cairo in the year 1776, appeared there
;s to. bis proper charadter and was treated with
I ^letter great politenefs 1 ; nor if I was well in formed,
will lit ^ vas a great difproportion between the
prefents he gave, and thofe he received in return.
10^1 ^P er ^ on w bo from neceffity is obliged, or
.'jtyEifo* from difpofition inclined to be a rigid oecono-
(Sittteefof mift, fhould not attempt to travel for curiofity
^ or pleafure in the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. , where the infolence
and

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Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates , authored by Colonel James Capper, published in London, and printed for W Faden, Geographer to the King, Charing Cross; J Robson, in the New Bond Street; and R Sewell, in Cornhill.

Edition: The third edition, with alterations and additions

Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxxvi); Octavo.

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1 volume (270 pages)
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There is no contents page or index detailing the arrangement or contents of the volume. A preface precedes the main body of the work.

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Dimensions: 237mm x 157mm.

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'Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.'
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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:10, 1:38, 1:108, 108a:108b, 109:158, 158a:158b, 159:288, iv-r:vi-v, back-i
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Capper, James
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