!['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.' [‎195] (260/360)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023463357.0x000001/V 7506_0268.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.' [‎195] (260/360)")
'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.' [195] (260/360)
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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C I 95 ]
feafon when the wells and ponds in the defert
are almoft dry, for the convenience of feeding
and watering their camels and iheep, they always
keep near the banks of feme great river: but
after the rains they move about from one place
to another, feldom remaining on one fpot longer
than a week. They compel every perfon they
meet with to pay them a tribute; but are feldom
guilty of cruelty, unlefs they are refifted, arid
any of their companions are killed j in which
cafe they are very vindidlive. The year before
they fell in with us, they attacked and plundered
a caravan going from Damafcus to Bagdad j but
their vidlory coft them dear, which perhaps
made them more readily liften to overtures of
peace from us.
November 19th. We marched at half after
feven in the morning, and about a mile to the
eaftward of our camp paffed by a fpring of warm
water, which in colour, tafte, and alfo in heat,
greatly refembles that of the Briftol Wells. It
is called by the Arabs Ain ul Koum: our Sheick
told us there was once an aquedud to convey
tfhis water from the fountain head, to an ancient
ruined city about fourteen miles from thence,
H h 2 called
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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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