!['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.' [‎73] (134/360)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023463357.0x000001/V 7506_0138.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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.' [‎73] (134/360)")
'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.' [73] (134/360)
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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delight: now a fcene of paftoral tranquillity,
fcarcely inhabited, and but little heeded.
Returning to the village with our amiable
party, we were curious to know the nature and
objedl of their fettlement at Adrianople. Trade
I know to be their purfuit, but we enquired
after its foundation and refources. They fup-
ply the city and its environs with the various
produce of Europe, which is conveyed to them
from Conftantinople; either diredly by land,
or from Rhadofto, whither it is conveyed by
boats ;and from Smyrna by the port of Envi,
in the Egean fea, and thence up the river Ma-
rizza to Adrianople. Their confumption is
confiderable, and in return one of their greateft
articles of exportation is hare Ikins, which they
buy as a fubftitute for the Canadian beaver; and
fend to the number of between three and four
hundred thoufand annually to France. I wasaf-
tonifhed at this furprizing nurfery of hares, but
the account is certainly founded in truth. Bred
in Wallachia and the intermediate tradl of land,
ibli are ^" ven large parties by the feverity
I d winter, down to the plains; the fnow
0 with which the ground is covered betrays their
haunts
f
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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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- '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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