James Capper

Life

Works

• Observations on the Passage to India through Egypt; also to Vienna through Constantinople and Aleppo, and from thence to Bagdad, and across the Great Desert to Bassora, with occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, and also Sketches of the different Routes, London, 1784 and 1785. This work contains some details of the travels of George Matcham. John Taylor used it for his 1795 proposal of an overland mail route to India.
• Memorial to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company, 1785.
• Observations on the Winds and Monsoons, illustrated with a chart, and accompanied with Notes, Geographical and Meteorological, London, 1801. Capper proposed in 1801 that hurricanes were a type of circular storm or whirlwind.
• Observations on the Cultivation of Waste Lands, addressed to the gentlemen and farmers of Glamorganshire, London, 1805.
• Meteorological and Miscellaneous Tracts applicable to Navigation, Gardening, and Farming, with Calendars of Flora for Greece, France, England, and Sweden, London, 1809,

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