!['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.' [‎161] (226/360)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023463357.0x000001/V 7506_0234.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.' [‎161] (226/360)")
'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.' [161] (226/360)
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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t "61 ]
ters fliould be fent to Baflbra all the way by land j
but that a gentleman had better go part of the
way to Syria by fea. Two days only were al
lowed me to prepare for this journey, and there
fore in the midft of fettling my own private
concerns, I had not leifure toconfider what route
I had beft take ;the orders given me were to go
by Holland to Venice or Leghorn ; in confe-
quence of which I loft many days, which would
have been faved if I had followed the abovemen-
tioned plan of going farther to the fouthward
before I embarked.
It muft be entirely unnecelTary to give an ac
count of my journey to Leghorn, the way to that
city being fo well known ; fuffice it to fay then,
that it was performed in eighteen days, notwith-
ftanding I went round by Venice, and was de
tained near two days on the road firft by the
poft-mafter of Gorcum in Holland, who refufed
to give us horfes to travel in the night and af
terwards by an accident happening to the car
riage.
The Conful at Leghorn on our arrival there,
freighted a Ragufian fnow of 220 tons to convey
us to Latichea or Alexandretta, which was ready
to receive us on the 27th of September 1778,
Dd but
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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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