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*[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]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HMMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt: Also by Vienna Through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from Thence by Bagdad and Directly Across the Great Desert to Bassora : With Occasional Remarks on the Adjacent Countries, an Account of the Different Stages, and Sketches of the Several Routes on Four Copper Plates''] by James Capper. Third edition with Alterations and Additions 1785 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=67RfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 1783 edition] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.510/page/n1/mode/2up ''A Journey Over Land to India, Partly by a Route Never Gone Before by Any European: In a Series of Letters to His Son. Comprehending His Shipwreck and Imprisonment with Hyder Alli, and His Subsequent Negociations and Transactions in the East''] by Donald Campbell, who formerly commanded a regiment of Cavalry in the service of His Highness the Nabab of the Carnatic. 1796 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WUyxs_SXn1UC&pg=PA13 1807 Google Books edition with Contents pages at back of book]. Campbell set out for India in May 1781. In 1784 he travelled to China, on the way back to England, arriving mid 1785.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SxRXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP11 ''A Journal, with occasional remarks, made on a trip from Aleppo to Bussora, across the Grand Desart of Arabia''] by Henry Abbott. Printed at Calcutta 1789. Google Books. A trip in 1784.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XppeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Travels in Asia and Africa: Including a Journey from Scanderoon to Aleppo, and Over the Desert to Bagdad and Bussora, a Voyage from Bussora to Bombay, and Along the Western Coast of India, a Voyage from Bombay to Mocha and Suez in the Red Sea, and a Journey from Suez to Cairo and Rosetta, in Egypt''] by the late Abraham Parsons [died 1785] 1808 Google Books
