!['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.' [‎230] (295/360)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023463357.0x000001/V 7506_0303.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.' [‎230] (295/360)")
'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.' [230] (295/360)
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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the city are nothing more than large round wicker
bafkets lined with leather; in which they carry
not only men, but alio horfes, and Ibmetimes ca
mels.
'
December 23d. Enquiring into the fuppofed
caufe of the plague that had almoft depopulated
this unfortunate city, I found it was in general im
puted to an extraordinary inundation of the river,
which left a great quantity of fifh on the defert,
and thofe filh becoming putrid, infeding the air.
In riding about the environs of the city we faw an
immenfe quantity of filh-bones ftill lying on the
ground. The plague generally rages with moft
violence in Turky and Egypt; in March and April,
at which time the weather is extremely hot. As
heat feems to increafe the virulence of this difor-
der; as the weather is hotter in Hindoftan than it
is in Turky; as the inhabitants alfo profefs the
fame religion, obferve the fame cuftoms, eat the
fame food, live in cities built in the fame mannerj
and alfo in houfes formed of the lame materials> it
is furprizing that the inhabitants of India have ne
ver been afflidled with this dreadful diforder; nor
indeed can I find that it has ever been known within
the Tropics, not even in Arabia Felix. So far
from ufing uncommon precautions to guard againft
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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- '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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