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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [46] (85/733)
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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ISLAND OF KENN.
H aving lately proceeded to the island of Kenn, we have the honour
to submit the following Report, in which the several quarters of the island
aie separately described, as represented in the accompanying Sketch
namely,— 1 ' '
A. THE A\EST, NORTH-WEST, AND SOUTH-WEST SIDES.
This part contains three villages, built near date plantations; one is
near the south-west point, and is called Bank; another at the north
west, Suffecl; the third does not appear to bear any name, and is about
midway between the other two; the distance between these two
extremes being nearly three and a quarter miles.
These villages are provided with wells, which supply the population,
and also irrigate the grain fields and date frees. Some of the water is
good ; the remainder is indifferent, and mostly brackish.
I'he country for about three miles in their vicinity is moderately
elevated above the sea, and nearly level, as it ascends very gradually
om the sea coast to the central and higher part of the island. It is
partially covered with trees, which are more numerous inland, and the
ground is also clearer on the coast, having only small tufts of coarse
giass, the inland part being rocky and stony.
The coast is of a bluff and rocky nature, with some small sandy bays •
but being bounded by a rocky shelf, dry in many places at low"-water,
and which extends not less than a quarter of a mile, tolerable landing
is afforded in these bays at high-water only, for light boats, and that
in moderate weather.
There is no good anchorage for ships off this part of the island, the
bottom being coarse sand, with patches of coral. It is exposed to
a heavy sweH during a moderate north-west wind, but may be safe to
appioach to eight or ten fathoms, a mile and a quarter or a mile and a
half off shore.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- IOR/R/15/1/732
- Title
- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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