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==The Passage to India ==
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Also see [[Maritime Service]] for descriptions of some sea voyages to India.
The Suez Canal was opened for navigation on the 17 November 1869.
*[http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert.htm “Remarks and Occurrences in a Journey from Aleppo to Bassora by way of the Desert"] by William Beawes, Esqr 1745 from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia
*[http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert2.htm “Account of a Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748”] by Gaylard Roberts from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo, over the Desert to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage to the East Indies: Volume 1'' by John Henry Grose 1772. Google Books. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from the East India Company and was refused a passage to India on board any of the Company's ships. This book commences with a description of a [http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage to Bombay in 1750]*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster)1819 Google Books. [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/bomarch/bomaug05.html Book of the Month] by Kings College London Library1886
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