Thoughts on a Late Proposal for Piloting Ships at all Seasons through Channel Creek, Instead of the Old Passage by the Braces, into Hoogly River
Printed for the Authors. 1782. First Edition, [ii],3-14pp., disbound, preserved in a folding sleeve. Benjamin Lacam!s proposal to establish a new shipping channel and harbour East of Saugor Sound, which avoided the dangers of the old approach to Calcutta via the Hooghly River. ESTC locates just three copies (C; MRu; Luk) all in the UK.
[Bookseller: Forest Books]
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