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Small quarto (10 5/8 by 8 3/4 inches) London: Printed For Robert Baldwin, . . . and Black Parry, And Co. Booksellers To The Hon. East India Company, 1814. First Edition. xi [1] 462 pages, + 1 leaf of publisher's advertisements.Engraved frontispiece and four engraved plates (the one of diamonds is hand colored), 2 large folding maps hand colored in outline (one of Mysore and the other of The Circars).
Statistical tables: "different soils with their productions," "List of . . . Produce . . . of the different Kinds of Grain, and of its Time of Sowing and Reaping," "Fruits and Seeds of Trees and Plants used in Curries," "Coins, Weights, and Measures."
There is also an "Account of the Diamond Mines in India," and "On the Propagation of the Christian Religion in India, and on the Moral Character of the Hindoos."
Four appendices: Appendix A. "Analysis of a New Species of Copper" by Thomas Tomson, M.D.; Appendix B. "Tables of the Thermometer and Barometer, as Observed in Different Parts of the Peninsula… Read More
