ملف XXIII/٨ "رحلات في عُمان. زيارة ب. توماس إلى شبه جزيرة مسندم. ١٩٢٨. ملاحظات عن لهجات الشحوح وشعوبها، وكذلك أهالي كمزار" [و‎‎٥] (٦٨/٩)

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H© who can visual lee the* mp of jrahia vlll Iso a«aro
of an oxcrosonc© on its oastorn oealoard which Ceotroya
the rectilinear sym* try of the fT«at ^rahiaa peninsula, his
axcreoetico is i-tieadAu* i territory belonging to the CMtt
tanate f it le separate from its suzerain by the- awael^
corridor svhiofc croeoec the base of the peninsula fron Dibah
to nm f aj . Ineignlfloant in also 9 it io but forty five isllee
in ita greateet Xength # aM its average breadth is only half
that difctaact) f It yot prceenta problem f othnolog4.oal a^xl
philological t of great interest to /jrabiete t problem* into
which there has been »m yet,little if any reaearoh.lta
local natse al Jabal tmnalated by "^iloo "Fea&e of
Hcuntaine** could porhapo hare been alternatively and not loss
felicitously translated * mountain Cayee" for here terminates
in a forked ceriec of seagirt heaftlande the great archaean
backbone of (/mn*the Hajar. This ayetn oonDpioueuo farther
south fox' ite isrell defined north and south aatis t^o to three
thousand feet hi^h flanked ^ith coastal plains and threaded
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mi the east '.y dee > wadis and on the west by Cxy
and Btollow tox'rmt beds f here in J^usandam takes on another
character.?ere la a tangled rm&s of meuntaia spur© which
sprawls out clawlike late the sea to divide the Culf of Cma
trow the Persian Oulf: the sea has clewed in east and. west
to the min oeearpnente giving rise to an intricately
tortuomew mwntain ooaat line. -.© an inetane* of the rambling
nature of this coast # at ;: ibi a cove in tie inmrssoet reoeM
of the f ;lphinetOM Inlet the mountain isUmms is only a nil©
and a half wide but to reach its distant side I eteemed
norm hours cir<;?ranaviratixu 7 fifty alios of the deeply
Indented prormtory. : : >irgiiig round this wild rock bound
coast are strong oddle© and conflicting ourrents whose
>rovoeatlo;i la 1 sv •.c.v-/. hy tho :>tc.d vritiauec oi t