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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [53] (95/733)
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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PIIELEECIII.
high-water. I was induced to run this risk from information gamed
from the pilot and others, that vessels would find shelter fiom sout i-
easters and south winds, not only on the east side of 1 heleechi, but
the west. I carried
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
of two and a half and two fathoms ove
the mud-flat the whole way, with the exception of two casts of ten fee ,
rocks, laying directly between the two islands, and, running o e
northward a short distance, anchored in what the Natives called a
Bunder, sheltered from south-east winds, in three fathoms, low-wa er.
This place is partially sheltered from south-east, and wholly from
south winds, but open from south-east to north. During the time I
remained there, it blew a moderate sea-breeze from south-east, wit ou
anv swell, but on its shifting to the eastward in the evening, a swell
immediately set in. East and south-east breezes ^ prevailed since I
came to this part of the coast, and a Native (Shaikh of Pheleechi)
informed me they have blown for the last three months with only a few
days' intermission. I do not think it a safe anchorage for vessels
drawing more than eight feet water, as vessels drawing more would
not be able to work out, should east winds blow, and there being less
water (two and a half fathoms) to pass over after leaving it. ^ hen at
anchor in three fathoms, mud (low-water), I obtained the following
bearings and angles -MofWPtrae
A tomb on point near Saidee town, bearing south .. 14 OU true.
High mosque in Grane, left of it 39 47
Said Sadoo Tomb, on mount right of it 12 db
Centre of Mnchaan, right of it ^ ^ m " •
Said Sadoo Tomb in one with west end of Toor, or Vt estern Town, is
as far as a vessel can go with safety to the westward, as the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
shoal suddenly when they are open. High-water here on full an
change 12.30 ; rise and fall from six to nine feet, local causes affecting
the tides ; rapidity two and a half to three knots per hour on the
springs ; flood to the west, ebb to south-east. „ ^
The other small Bunder is on the west side of Pheleechi, distant
three to four hundred yards from the shore, and situated between t e
town of Toor and Said Sadoo, or tomb on a mound of the chart: it has a
fathom and a half on it at low-water, and would shelter a small vesse
drawing less from most winds. , . i
The island (Pheleechi) is very low, and apparently at high spring
tides broken in upon by the sea in many places, and must be a perfect
swamp during the rainy season. It has three towns on it, viz. cor
the western, Saidee the northern, and Grane the eastern ; the former o
which is the only one at present inhabited, the other two having been
depopulated by the late plague. It contains seventy to eighty houses,
and about a hundred and fifty inhabitants.
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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.
- 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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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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