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Letters from India; describing a journey in the British dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere, during the years 1828-31, etc

Victor Vinceslas Jacquemont · 1834 · Scanned text

219,279 words · about 15 h 21 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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Author
Victor Vinceslas Jacquemont
Language
English
Published
1834
Length
219,279 words · about 15 h 21 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. Introduction about 15 h
  3. Appendix about 21 min
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Front matter

VIA ' 'OM A ASTUTE M©!IT. Itnim ,.-:,. -.-i,,! •'.■/■J IS4 f, /h,i. und . ': < J'eXej J! LETTERS FROM INDIA; DESCRIBING 3 Stounteg IN THE BKITISH DOMINIONS OF INDIA, TIBET, LAHORE, AND CASHMERE, DURING THE YEARS 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831. UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, BY VICTOR JACQUEMONT, TRAVELLING NATURALIST TO THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, PARIS. ACCOMPANIED WITH A MAP OF INDIA AND A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: EDWARD CHURTON, 26, HOLLES STREET. (LATE BULL AND CHURTON.) 1834.

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