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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [578] (622/733)
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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578
NAVIGATION OF THE
where it divides into two branches, one called Khore Shetna, formed
by Woorba Island and the main, which continues navigable for large
boats above Bussora, and is supposed to be the canal described by Ar-
rian in the voyage of Nearchus. The other branch is called Khore
Boobian, for in the island of that name, which forms the western bank
of both this and Khore Abdoolla, it is here narrow, but safe, having deep
water in it, and after passing Woorba Island it branches off to the south
ward. It runs this way (and is not more than half a mile wide) with from
three to seven fathoms at low-water spring tides, until it again enters
the Gulf near the islands of Muchan and Pheleechi, when the passage
is very intricate, owing to the number of knolls, nearly dry, and can only
be used by the native boats at half flood. (The whole of these Khores
are salt water). Nearly in the centre, but rather towards the eastern
entrance of Khore Abdoolla, is an extensive and very dangerous shoal,
called by the natives Fashtal Aich. The channel on the western side
is formed by it and Boobian Khore el Giet. It has from three to five
fathoms in it. Khore Abdoolla has regular
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
from three to eight
fathoms. Ras-ool-Giet is the north-eastern point of Boobian Island.
The western point of Khore el Giet is in lat. 29 0 46 / 53" N., long. 48° 17'
oO E. From this to the island of Pheleechi the flat extends a consi
derable distance oft shore, and Boobian Island should not be approach
ed nearer than five fathoms, as the in-draught of the flood is so great that
a a esse] would find it difficult to get an offing in a south-easter. You
may anchor in any depth from four to six fathoms off Pheleechi, with
the town SW.by W., but recollect the rise and fall are eleven feet.
FROM THE EASTERN POINT OF THE EUPHRATES ALONG
THE COAST OF PERSIA.
E astern P oint.
^ is 5,1 290 57 '
six or -i ir t ' 18 ' a not perceptible more than
river as en miles oti It is a complete mudbank, and is gaining on the
twelve or fiff S eXtended farther down during the last
nla Z , r y T S ,' eral Villages 0f the Chaab Arabs are situated
.Ins point, and there are large quantities of cattle on its banks.
I nspector's C hannel.
GufgTh 0 hIv S ino hann , el 'f a , gUt ' rannin g ont of river into Khore
highis;';"ir et r ai : d a . <iuarter at "
parallel with the shore W ere en,ers tlle channels. It runs
he Sl,0re ' "ommencng about a mile and a half below the
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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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- 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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