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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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tlirough this day's journey, a feven hours march
to Chio Oglu. In this flate of mind we took
up our lodging at a fpacious and once magnifi-
'' a!1( i cent conak, when an occurrence happened that
0I1 i as excited our curiofity, a paffion that is not to be
uiltto ftifled by affliction. The Devan EfFendi of
'feii Wallachia made his appearance with a fuit of a
'lout dozen carriages, and a long cavalcade of more
foeni than an hundred horfes. He is an officer ap-
indon pointed by the Porte to co-officiate with the
nuiit prince of Wallachia in caufes wherein Turks
idipb and fubjeds are concerned ; the fupreme power
aifaiti, being veiled in the prince, who is a Greek, and
listoi appointed by the Porte. This and the princi-
:M pality of Moldavia are the only veftiges I know
ofqueti of the ancient Greek dominions; the Greek
ptions, language is fpoken at court, and all the inftru-
^ efe . ments of government are drawn up in that lan-
oclocl guage. On the road from this place, whence
[eh us, we departed at five o'clock (ifl Odober) Sun-
u- Mi day n:)0rnin g> we met a much more confiderable
lifei train attending the fifter of the reigning prin-
ccfsof Wallacll i a . and related to the druggaman
L [tl t of the Porte. This dignity fo founding is but
ieW of a P recarious tenure, fince the Porte have upon
a ^ ate occafion affumed and exercifed the unex-
0 ^ ■? j
^ii! anipled prerogative of depofmg and beheading
the

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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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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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