Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-14 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 29 November 1841. The enclosures are dated 13 August-29 November 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to continuing surveys by steam boat of the River Euphrates to determine its navigability, particularly their financing and accounts. The correspondents are Lieutenant Henry Blosse Lynch, Commander of the Surveys, and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (24 folios)
Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-10 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 30 December 1841. The enclosures are dated 25 March-30 December 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to continuing surveys by steam boat of the River Euphrates to determine its navigability, particularly their financing and accounts, and the state of repair of the steam vessels
Euphratesand
Nimrod. The correspondents are: Lieutenant Charles Dugald Campbell, commanding the surveys during the absence of Lieutenant Henry Blosse Lynch; the Superintendent of the Indian Navy; and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (24 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, memoranda, and minutes, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Henry Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant Chief Engineer George Jervis; Captain Sir Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy; Captain Henry Blosse Lynch; and the Government of India.The item concerns the surveys of the Euphrates, Tigris, and Kuran [Karun] rivers, and the process of Captain Felix Jones creating a new chart from the results of Lynch’s survey expeditions. The item includes details of the employment of draughtsmen, the creation of copies, and lists of surveys, but it does not contain copies of the maps or surveys themselves.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 689/48’, ‘Coll[ection]: 19’, ‘Collection No 1 of No 51’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 352, and terminates at f 382 as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.Publication Details: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 Printed by W. Clowes and sons, Stamford Street.Notes: Printer's name from colophon. Only two volumes of text and an atlas containing the maps were published.Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Physical Description: xxvii, [3], 799, [1] p., [29] leaves of plates (1 folded), (the plates are numbered: 1, 3-9, 11-26, 28, 33, 37, 39, 42-43). Vol. 1, p. 705-706 and p. 707-708 are fold-out leaves.Physical description: Dimensions: 320mm x 240mm
Abstract: Genre/Subject Matter:View of the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers at Kurna. Smoke fills the sky area from right to left as a result of reed-burning in the marshes. A single boat with two standing figures carrying poles is visible in the background.Inscriptions:Ink, alongside image, at right: 'Junction of Tigris and Euphrates at Kurna. The smoke is the result of extensive reed-burning in the marshes.'Physical description: Dimensions:176 x 128 mmCondition:The print is in good condition throughout with minor toning/fading at all edgesFoliation:‘29’
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 80 of 1842, dated 14 July 1842.The enclosed papers, dated between May 1841 and July 1842, comprise minutes, correspondence and reports, and relate to the Euphrates Flotilla, a survey expedition by steam boat to determine the navigability of the Euphrates River. The correspondence is between John Pollard Willoughby, Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Henry Blosse Lynch, Commanding the Euphrates Flotilla; Thomas Herbert Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India; Captain Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy; Major James Outram, Political Agent, Scinde [Sindh]; Captain William Lowe, Commander of the East India Company's Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf; Lieutenant W B Selby, Commanding the East India Company steamer,
Assyria; Lieutenant H W Grounds, Commanding the East India Company steamer,
Nimrod; the Military Auditor General, Bombay; and the Military Board, Marine Department, Bombay.The papers concern several matters, including:Monthly reports and 'news letters' of the proceedings of the Flotilla, from April 1841 to April 1842Orders for all iron steamers to proceed to Scinde to assist in the ongoing Anglo-Afghan WarConflict between the crew of the
Assyriaand the Zobaid [Zubayd] Arabs on 22 June 1841, including a return of officers and men woundedAn accident that befell the
Nimrodwhen it hit a submerged treeFinancial and administrative matters connected to the expedition, including expenses, allowances, and personnel.Physical description: 1 item (116 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 95 of 1847, dated 12 November 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-29 and are dated 14 April to 30 October 1847.The enclosures consist of correspondence, and minutes and resolutions of the Government of Bombay, relating to the steam ship
Nitocrison the River Euphrates. They discuss matters including:The price which should be paid for the purchase of a supply of coal for the use of the
Nitocrison the Euphrates (to be landed at Bussorah [Basra, also spelled Bussora in this item] and stored at Bagdad [Baghdad]), and the type of coal which would be most suitableThe resolution of the Government of Bombay that the officer proceeding in command of the
Nitocrisshould be enabled to distribute presents to persons (‘Arab Chiefs’) from whom he may receive aid in facilitating the surveys contemplatedThe amended scale of establishment (rates of pay for the Commander and crew) submitted by the Superintendent of the Indian Navy to the Governor of Bombay for the
NitocrisThe recommendation of the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] that Lieutenant James Felix Jones, commanding the steamer
Nitocris, be appointed Surveyor in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in addition to his present duties, to carry out ‘surveying mapping and reporting on the countries watered by the Tigris and Euphrates, and their affluents’, and his subsequent appointment on an allowance of five Rupees per day or 150 Rupees per month when actually employed on survey duty.The main correspondents are the following: the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet; the Superintendent of the Indian Navy, Captain Robert Oliver; the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; and the Under-Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, William Edwards.Physical description: 1 item (44 folios)