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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.4
Title:: Papers relating to the defence of Batavia
Scope & Content:: Batavia, 6 December 1806. Original in Dutch, with English translation. (a) Aanmerkingen Aangaande de Deffensie Van Batavia. Original of the following: (b) Remarks respecting the defence of Batavia. Translated from the preceeding. Suggests certain improvements to be made to the batteries and f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: 1806
Extent:: 1 part, ff. 87-90.

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.5
Title:: Memoir on Wannee in Ceylon, and papers relating to it.
Scope & Content:: (a) Wannee in Ceylon: Extracts in Dutch from Mackenzie Private 59.1, pp. 5-6, 7-8, 8-15, 16-18, and 18-23. These extracts are supplemented by (h) infra, q.v. (b) Wanne in Ceylon: English translation of the preceeding. (c) Moolletivo [= Mullaittivu] 23 May 1793.Memorial of the state of the Wann...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: 1661-1793
Extent:: 1 part, folios 27-104

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.7
Title:: Notes respecting Sourabaya
Scope & Content:: (a) 26 July 1813. Notes respecting the Interior of Sourabaya [= Surabaya] District, with some description of remarkable coconut trees, by Colonel Adams. Topographical and descriptive notes of a journey taken in April 1813, with remarks on irrigation, forests, agriculture, antiquities (two inscri...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: 1805-1813
Extent:: 1 part, ff. 13-67.

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.9
Title:: Report on the repair of the dams in Mullenawe, on Ceylon
Scope & Content:: (a) Kolombo [= Colombo] 24 July 1789.Letter in Dutch from P Foenander to Willem Jacob van de Graaff, Governor of Ceylon. Reports in detail on the possibility and advisability of repairing certain irrigation dams at Molleriawe. (b) English translation of the preceding.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: 1789
Extent:: 1 part, ff. 1-24

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.11
Title:: On the resources of Ceylon in rice
Scope & Content:: (a) The Dutch original of the following. (b) Four questions on Ceylon, viz (a) whether and how the island could be made self supporting in regards rice supply, (b) whether and how suitable timber for shipbuilding could be found there in sufficient quantity, especially on the eastern side of the...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: c 1800
Extent:: 1 part, ff. 43-93

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV. 12
Title:: Tribes in Ceylon
Scope & Content:: (a) Extract from a Dutch account of the Castes amongst the Sinhalese, including a fairly full description of the several kinds of costume worn by them, with reference to regulations dated 15 September 1758 and 4 July 1759. In part this covers much the same ground as Mackenzie Private 78.1 but is...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 part, ff. 1-6

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.13
Title:: Instructions for the Commissioners appointed to register the landed property in Colombo, Mature and Galle.
Scope & Content:: Colombo, 15 November 1745 (a) Instructie voor de ge committeer de om zig daar va te reguleeren bij de nieuwe land beschryving in de Colombose en Maturese Dessavenyen mitsgaders in de Gale Corle. The original of the following, q.v., (b) Instructions for the Commissioners appointed to make a ne...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: 1745-1791
Extent:: 1 part, ff. 7-22

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.27
Title:: Memoir on the state of Java
Scope & Content:: Sourabaya [= Surabaya], 24 November 1810. Memorie overgegeven door den afgaande Landdrost over Javas Oosthoek J. A. van Middelkoop aan zyne Vervanger den Heere P. A. Goldbach. The original of Mackenzie Private 6.1, q.v.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 1 part, ff. 12-67

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.28
Title:: Observations on the state of Bantam
Scope & Content:: Bantam, 30 November 1786. Bedenkingen over den Staat van Bantam door den Heer J. de R: van Brengel. Another copy of the work contained in Mackenzie Private 4.1, q.v., with some omissions (e.g. the last paragraph of the Voorberigt.)
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: 1786
Extent:: 1 part, ff. 68-102

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.29
Title:: Registers der Atlassen
Scope & Content:: List of about 30 collections of maps, plans and charts, and geographical and military drawings in various Government offices at Batavia, Weltevreden, etc., relating to places in the Dutch East Indies, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, India, China, Japan, the Philippines, the Cape of Good Hope, Holla...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: 1806-1808
Extent:: 1 part, ff. 1-69

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