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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [33] (70/733)
The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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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KARUACK—
BOSTANA
KISHM.
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my opinion, its quality does not deserve the encomiums passed on it by
the English who reside at Abooshahar.
The shoals along the head of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
are laid down to the
southward of their real situation, as will appear by a reference to La
Chiffonne's log-book for 1809-10, and a comparison with McCluer's
chart, published by Mr. Dalrymple.
bostana.
Bostana is a low shelving point, with rugged hills immediately above
it. Its extremity is about lat. 26° 30' N. ; it bears from Polior NNE.
^ E., and W. from the southern end of Kishm.
THE ISLAND OF KISHM, AND ITS VICINITY.
The western ends of the island of Kishm lie north and south of each
other, and are distant about seven miles from the north-west ends, in
iat. 26° 38' N. The Coast of Persia rounds to Cape Bostana or Bestian,
which in McCluer's and Heather's charts is improperly called Cape
Certes.
Kishm is near the main, and extends eighteen leagues W. by S. and
R. by N. ; its greatest breadth is probably twenty miles ; but from Luft,
a town on its north side, about thirty miles in a direct line from that ol
Kishm, it narrows in other places considerably, down probably to
seven miles, and afterwards widens very little to the westward.
Nothing can exceed the singular appearance of the coast of this
island : the hills, once uniformly table, are in many places mouldered
away, leaving parts of very grotesque shapes. It is said that before
the inhabitants were oppressed by the Joasmee pirates, one hundred
villages flourished on the island. The Natives are chiefly weavers,
who supplv the Oulf with loongees, and striped cotton and bilk cloths ,
their personal appearance and character are much in their fa\our.
On the east side, close to the sea, lies the town of Kishm, in lat.
26° 57' 30" N., off which ships may, with westerly winds, securely
ride, in clear ground. Kishm is walled round, and has a small oblong
fort within the walls.
The whole island, as well as a large portion of the opposite coast, in
which are mines of brimstone, is farmed from Persia by the Imaum of
Muskat.
There is a good channel between Kishm and Larrack, but you mus
be careful of a bank, which is said to extend nearly two miles
from a point southward of the town of Kishm, on which is a grove ol
drttfi trees.
The island of Kishm tends from the town NW. to the Western Cape,
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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