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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [559] (603/733)
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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GULF OF PERSIA.
559
H as A boo al M ashuit.
Ras Aboo al Mashuit is a low point, in lat. 25° 15' 10 v N., long.
51° S?' 20" E. The
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
off here are rather irregular, from
two and three quarters to five fathoms.
H as B oo A boot.
Ras Boo Aboot, the SE. boundary of Al Bidder Harbour, is in lat.
25 11' N., long. 51° 35 / E. The reef that forms the southern side
of the entrance to Al Bidder Harbour runs out two miles from this
point, and continues along shore, running off about one mile, until
it joins Fasht al Anief.
J ezeerat al S uffic.
Jezeerat al Suffic is a low, semicircular, sandy island, its west point
being in lat. 25 19' 40" N., long. 51° 35 / E. A reef runs from it in
a southerly direction, and from the northern entrance to Al Bidder
Harbour, in a northerly direction, it runs up as high as Ras Reccan, its
distance off shore varying from one to seven miles.
A l B idder T own.
Al Bidder Town is in lat. 25° 16' 50" N., long. 51° 33' E. It is
situated at the bottom of a harbour, formed by the reefs before mentioned.
The entrance is only half a mile wide, having three and four fathoms
water in it in mid-channel, and rather less towards the northern reef,
and towards the southern two fathoms. As the shoals show themselves
distinctly, to enter the harbour you must be guided by them, keeping
rather nearer to the northern one. The narrow part is not more than
half a mile in length. When through, steer for the town, and anchor
abreast the eastern tower, in three and a half fathoms, about half a
mile off shore. This place contains about four hundred Arabs of the
Nahune, Dooasir, and Abookara Tribes, and is frequented by the
Monasir and other wandering tribes. In the pearl season the inhabit
ants are augmented to about twelve hundred, it being convenient to the
banks, and so completely sheltered. The people are mostly fishermen;
they have one or two trading boats, and, like all other inhabitants of this
coast, take a large share in the pearl fishery. They are subject to
Bahrein. Cattle and poultry are procurable here, but they are very dear.
Water, pretty good, can also be procured. The'defences are a small
Ghuree in the town, two or three towers, indifferent, and a Ghuree a
mile to the north-westward of the town, on the rising ground.*
Due east of Al Bidder, about twelve miles, is a small patch, with onty a fathom and a
half on it. We traversed for it one whole day, but could not hit on it; a good look-out is
necessary. In the chart a dotted line shows the part within which it lies.
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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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