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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [534] (578/733)
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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534
NAVIGATION OF THE
PART I.*
ARABIAN SIDE OF THE GULF.
H as M usseldom.
Ras Musseldom, in lat. 26° 23' 45 // N., long. 56° 35' lO' 7 E., is the
south-eastern point of the Gulf of Persia, and the outer or lowest point
of the island of the same name. The island is a barren rook, about
two miles m length, and half that in breadth. Its highest part is about
four or five hundred feet, formed of steep cliffs. All round the cape
is the lowest part, which is about thirty feet high, increasing in some
parts to one hundred and fifty. It is at the southern entrance of the
Gulf. Between the island (Jazeerat Musseldom) and the opposite
promontory of Ras Goberhindee there is a channel, with from twenty
to forty fathoms in it; the narrowest part is not quite one-third of
a m.le wide, and the currents being strong and irregular, together with
being liable to sudden shifts of wind, it is unsafe for navigation.
H as G oberhindee.
Has Goberhindee (Cape of the Indian's Grave), or Ras-ool-Gebal
is rrT f a P e) ' the f ame b y wMch it is best known to the Arabs,
is the Maceta of the Greeks, and part of the Asabo or Black Mountains
of the ancients ; is in lat. 26° 22' 18" N., long. 56° 33' 44" E • is oddo-
site to Jazeerat Musseldom, and is about one hundred and fifty or one
hundred and eighty feet perpendicular above the sea.
R as-ool- B ab.
Ras-ool-Bab is a high, remarkable promontory, consisting of basal-
noint f ; K nea K y ^ by S : fr0 . ra RaS Gobe rtindee, and forms one
entrant ^ a - , ' a 0 " t ' ree mdes in depth, and one in breadth. At its
ntrance, round the whole of which the land is high, barren and
to the rocks TtT Tf' 0111 tWent - v - e ig ht '0 forty fathoms close
the rocks, the bottom hard sand and rocks. This bay should never
the wiXbrfflilg/ViretoR^To^iltsr^'T- bad '
rock with floor. i ■ stands a high perpendicular
you are close to it^ ^ C 086 ^ ^ ^ appears a P art of tIle ca P e until
K oomza,
Koomza is a town situated at the bottom nf * ™ u ■
tiom ol a cove, having
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
¥ Dated 21 st August 1829.
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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