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Page scope

An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul (Kirkpatrick 1811) covers Kirkpatrick's An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul (London, 1811), the published account of the British mission to Nepal in 1793. Kirkpatrick's other writings are not described here.

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The copies used

The contents (pp. xvii–xviii) and the preface (pp. i and xv) were read on the page images of the Bibliotheca Himalayica reprint, which reproduces the 1811 edition. Pages 142–143 and 306–307 were read in the text of the Internet Archive scan accountofkingdom00colo, a reprint of the same edition. The publisher, William Miller of Albemarle Street, is named on the title page.

Spellings

Jeea, Cherris, Momea, Subje, Mullebum, Khatmandu, Hindostan and the Kuchar are Kirkpatrick's spellings and are kept. The page does not identify Mullebum with any later place.

Who wrote the preface

The preface speaks of "the Publisher" and is dated 1 March 1811. It is reported as the publisher's, not Kirkpatrick's. Hamilton (1819, pp. 5–6) blamed the errors in the book's place names on whoever saw it through the press.