Steam Navigation to Internal and External Communications of India, Volume 8
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Steam Navigation to Internal and External Communications of India, Volume 8
- Creator:
- Author: Council of India
- Date:
- 1780/1832
- Description:
- Abstract: Papers and correspondence relating to the journals and diaries of explorations in the area of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding waters in the context of improving navigation and communications between England and India.A list of contents is given on folio 10:'Captain Mark Wood's Narrative of his Overland journey, 1779-1780' (ff 12-55)'Mr R. Scott's Letter on the Passage over the Isthmus of Suez, and project of a new route to India, 1780' (ff 56-84)'Mr D. Talamas: correspondence relative to compensation for carrying overland Dispatches, 1783' (ff 85-94)'Lieut S. Hunter's Narrative of his Overland Journey with Dispatches, and documents connected with his expences, 1792' (ff 95-111)'Correspondence between the Court and Indian Governments on Deficiency of Intelligence, 1785 to 1803' (ff 112-129)'Fragment of a Narrative on an Overland journey to India' (ff 130-138)'Captain J. Wainwright Remarks on the navigation of the Persian Gulph, 1809-1810' (ff 139-166)'Captn Sadler's Diary of his Mysion to Arabia, 1819-20' (ff 167-339)'Captn Bedford's Journals of the Survey of the Burrampooter River, 1824-1825' (ff 340-423)'Lieutenant Wellsted's Memoir regarding the Red Sea and Steam Navigation between Europe and India, 1832' (ff 424-539)'Lieut. Wybards's Journal of an Excursion into Arabia' (ff 540-565)'Memoir on the Arab Tribes on the Banks of the Euphrates and Tigris' (ff 566-584).The volume also includes a sketch map (folio 585v): 'A Map of the Oases of El Hasa'.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 599; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, present between ff 4-95, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.Pagination: The file also contains an original printed pagination sequence which runs in parallel between ff 14-586 and additional intermittent pagination sequences which are written in pencil, but are not circled.The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 587-598, which have not been digitised.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Lighthouses
Vessels
Harbours - Geographic region:
- Red Sea
Kurrachee - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100022551646.0x00024d_ar
81055/vdc_100022551646.0x00024d_en
IOR/L/MAR/C/570
IOR/L/MAR/C/570