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Transcripts of documents sent home in 1798 - 1799 for John Bruce, historiographer...

Catalogue reference: IOR/H/456b

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IOR/H/456b
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Transcripts of documents sent home in 1798 - 1799 for John Bruce, historiographer to the East India Company.
Date
1677-1795
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(1) pp. 1-448, ''Hendrik Adrian van Rheede to the Honourable Jacob Lobs . . . Governor-General on the Coasts of Malabar, Canara and Wingorla, Cochin 17th March 1677. Instructions to his Successor for the Administration of the Dutch Possessions on these Coasts'' [Badly] translated from the Dutch by F. Wappers, with marginal notes not in the Dutch. Forwarded to John Bruce by Philip Dundas 21st April 1796. Detailed description of the Malabar Coasts, the Princes, People, Manners and Customs (about 30,000 words). The original Dutch has been reprinted as No. 14 of Selections from the Madras Records. (2) pp. 451-623, ''Lieut. Edward Seton's Observations on the Ceded Countries on the Malabar Coast,'' Transmitted by Philip Dundas from Bombay 10th Jan. 1795, Description of Malabar (about 13,000 words). (3) pp. 625-99, Extracts of letter from ''Mr. Griffiths to Mr. Adamson, Bombay, Surat, 17th Feb. 1794, containing information respecting the character of the Inhabitants on the Banks of the Indus,'' Sind or Sindah, Multan, Dominions of the Seeck, Kandahar or the Dominion of the Durranies. (4) pp. 703-54, Sir John Shore (Governor-General in Council) to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, 21st Oct. 1795, Capt. Blair's Plan for the Bombay Marine. (5) p. 757, List of Contents.

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English
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Transcripts of documents sent home in 1798 - 1799 for John Bruce, historiographer to the East India Company.