Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; George Buist, Secretary of the Bombay Geographical Society; and Captain Start, Acting Assistant to the Chief Engineer. It is the second in a series of two items on the travels of Commander Felix Jones from Baghdad to Sulemaneyeh [Sulaymaniyah] via Kirmanshah [Kermanshah] and back to Baghdad.The item concerns the arrangements made by the Government of Bombay to make copies of Jones’s account of his travels and the map which he created, and distribute them. The item does not contain a copy of the map.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 586/49’, ‘Coll[ection]: 3’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 19’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 707, and terminates at f 719 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: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Lynch, Officiating Superintendent of the Indian Navy; and Commander Felix Jones. It is the first in a series of two items on Jones’s travels.The item concerns Jones’s account of his travels accompanying Major Henry Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] from Baghdad to Sulemaneyeh [Sulaymaniyah] via Kirmanshah [Kermanshah] and their separate return to Baghdad, to investigate the border between the Persian [Iranian] and Ottoman Empires prior to the Second Treaty of Erzroum [Erzurum]. The account includes frequent latitude and longitude bearings, observations of the temperature, and exact timings, as well as remarks on local history, the people Jones met, and descriptions of ancient ruins and inscriptions with etymological and historical conjectures. A detailed description of the Behistan [Behistun] Inscription appears on folios 670-675, and the Tak-i-Bostan [Taq-e Bostan] sculptures are described on folios 679-681. The item does not contain a copy of the map which Jones created.The places visited include:The River Diyleh [Diyala]Village of Bakuba [Baqubah]Shehraban [Al Miqdadiyah]The Holwan River [Nahr Alwand]Kasri Shirim [Qasr-e Shirin]Sar-puli-Zohab [Sarpol-e Zahab]Sar-mil [Sarmil]Kirrind [Kerend-e Gharb]Kirmanshah [Kermanshah]Mahidasht [Mahi Dasht]Halebjah [Halabja]Sulemaneyeh [Sulaymaniyah].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 586/49’, ‘Coll[ection]: 3’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 139’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 630, and terminates at f 706 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: 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 102 of 1848, dated 30 November 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-36 and are dated 13 January to 23 December 1848. They mostly consist of copies of correspondence, and minutes by the Governor of Bombay, regarding the East India Company's steam ship
Nitocrison the rivers of Mesopotamia [Iraq].The enclosures discuss matters including:An application from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia for sanction to purchase a supply of two hundred tons of coal for the use of the
Nitocris, which was about to be despatched from England to Bussorah [Basra]The views of the Superintendent of the Indian Navy on the inexpediency of allowing Commander James Felix Jones to be absent from the
Nitocrisfor the purpose of conducting surveys in Mesopotamia and adjacent areasThe grant of a superior command allowance to Commander Jones of the
Nitocriswhile employed on the rivers of MesopotamiaThe continuance of the allowance of one hundred rupees per month granted to Commander Jones, for defraying the expenses incurred in making presents to Arab Chiefs.The main correspondents are as follows: the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay (Arthur Malet); the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia (Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson); the Superintendent of the Indian Navy (Commodore Sir Robert Oliver); the Secretary to the Government of India (Henry Miers Elliot); and the Military Auditor General, Bombay (Lieutenant Colonel George Moore).Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatches, numbered 1-36, on folios 320-324. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
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)