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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [63] (77/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (112 folios). It was created in 1933. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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chap. ii. ge0g11aphy tuucial oman.
63
From a point between Khor Kalba and Murair the
Eastern frontier of
Trucial Oman
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
, which is essentially
fluid, turns inland westwards and then south, passing
north of the districts of Mahadhan and Jau to an uncei -
tain point in Khatam. From this point the inland
dary follows the edge of the Ruba'al-Khali and Jaturah
deserts running more or less parallel to the Gulf.
2. General. —Physically
Trucial Oman
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
consists of three
zones or divisions—a maritime belt and islands; inland
plains; and a. mountain system.
The Western coast is low and monotonous. In the north
there are occasional date groves but as the coast trend 8
away to the south and west trees die out, until at Abu
Dhabi they cease altogether. The shore is lined by shoals,
reefs and islands; creeks are numerous, uniting sometimes
inland to form backwaters and swamps, and quasi-isiands
are created in this manner. Navigation is extremely dith-
cult and dangerous even to local craft and the whole coast
is exposed to the strong Shamal (north-west) gales.
The Eastern coast {i.e., that washed by the Gulf of
Oman), is bold and steep, the hills in places coming down
to the water's edge.
The inland plains, which consist almost entirely of sandy
desert, commence from the coast and merge m the north
into the hilly tract and in the south into the desert. Mea
gre desert vegetation and some wells and water holes sup
port a scanty Bedouin population.
The mountain tract is in the East where a section ol
the spinal range of the Oman Promontory is included.
This tract is about 50 miles in extent from north to
south and its average breadth is about 20 miles. The
mountain ridges run from north to south. The tract is
bare and, for the most part, waterless.
3 The Principalities, (a) Abu Dhabi.-—This princi
pality is the largest in the area. It stretches along the
coast from the creek of Ghanadhah on the north to Khor
Odaid on the west. Towards the interior the boundaries
are ill-defined. They are said to extend on the east to the
Baraimi Oasis and on the south to the margin of the Great
Desert.
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The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volume in the spelling 'Bahrein'.
The volume contains information in separate sections for each of the places listed in the title under the following chapter headings:
- I Historical (ff 8-14);
- II Geography, Climate, Health (ff 15-54);
- III Population (ff 54-67);
- IV Water Supply; Resources (ff 68-70);
- V Armed Forces (ff 70-75);
- VI Aviation (ff 75-78);
- VII Political (ff 79-81);
- VIII Inter-Communication [wireless and telegraph] (ff 81-82);
- IX Communications [land routes] (ff 83-98).
There are three appendices, which follow the same format:
- I Currency, Weights and Measures (f 99-102);
- II Landing Facilities - Maritime (ff 103-106);
- III List of Maps (f 106).
The volume includes five maps of the region (ff 109-113).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (112 folios)
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There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 113 on the last of the five maps inserted in a pocket attached to the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. All five maps (ff 109, 110, 111, 112, 113) need to folded out to be examined. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages in the volume.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-198 appears between ff 8-106.
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- 'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:iii-r, ii-v, iv-r:iv-v, 1:4, 1:208, v-r:v-v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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