!['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.' [‎244] (309/360)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023463357.0x000001/V 7506_0317.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.' [‎244] (309/360)")
'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.' [244] (309/360)
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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wind; unbent it, and bent a fmaller. The middle
of the night being exceedingly cloudy, the Arabs
for want of a compafs did not know which way to
fleer ;they had been going above two hours due
North when we difcovered it, and put them right;
they had been deceived by a change of wind and
bad fleerage. In the morning came on a frefh
breeze to the N. W. which continued till ten in
the morning, it then grew calm, and afterwards
fprung up from the fame quarter: latitude obferved
26. 29. North, diftant from the fhore about five
leagues, high mountain near Cape Mozandan. The
town of Lema bore of us at noon S. W. by W.
the afternoon little wind and cloudy all round.
January 20th. About one o'clock this morn
ing came on a frefh breeze at North, which in-
creafed with a following fea: about four o'clock
in the morning our tiller rope broke, and it was
with much difficulty we prevented the veffel from
flying to. Three men got overboard to mend the
rudder, in the mean time the veffel rolled fo much
that there was danger of her filling, or at leaft of her
carrying away the mall; in about an hour the rudder
being repaired, we got under fail again, the weather
being dark andfqually; the Nakhuda or Captain, and
the Malleem, or pilot, thought it unfafe to continue
any longer at fea, and therefore put in at Khorfa-
kan.
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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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