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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [585] (629/733)
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.
585
port where all the British and foreign trade with Persia centres. It is
walled in, and about two miles in circumference. Its bazar is well
supplied from the country with all sorts of provisions and fruits, and a
number of merchants reside here, who carry on a very extensive trade ;
caravans arrive and depart daily. There is no water in the town that
is drinkable—all is brought from places about two or three miles distant.
The Shaikh or governor has, in addition to Bushire, all the places on
the coast from Bunda Dellim to Halilla, under his authority, and several
places fifteen or sixteen miles inland. His government is despotic in
the extreme, and having four ships, besides several large Buggalows, of
his own, he engrosses most of the freight, as he will not allow the mer
chants to ship their goods on any other vessel until his are loaded. The
anchorage is in a road formed by two banks, two and a half miles off"
the town, having from four to two and a half fathoms at low-water, soft
muddy bottom. The following directions will conduct a ship into the
roads, should she not be able to obtain a pilot; but I should always
recommend a pilot being obtained:—
1
1 IE
DIRECTIONS FOR GOING INTO BUSIIIRE INNER ROADS,
A ship coming from the northward, with a northerly wind, should
stand along' the bank extending off Rohilla Point in a line of four
fathoms, until she gets the flagstaff to bear N, 77° E., shipping in the
inner roads N, 41° E,, or the Old House or Sand Island N. 47° E. ;
then haul up N. 57° E. (in doing which you will cross over hard sand), until
the flagstaff bears E., Old House N. 46° E., shipping N. 39° E. (In
crossing the hard sand, should a vessel decrease her water to less than
two and a half falhorns, she should bear away more for the town, and haul
up immediately she increases that depth.) When the above bearings
are on, haul up as high as N. 19° E., carrying
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
from two and
three quarters to three fathoms, until the flagstaff bears S. 45° E., Old
House N. 60° E., shipping N. 62° E. You may then with the ebb tide
bear away for the shipping, keeping a good look-out for the point of the
reef, which is nearly dry at low-water; but should the flood be running,
it would be advisable for a vessel to keep up about three quarters of a
point to windward of the shipping, and bear away when the point is
abreast of her.
A ship coming from the southward, with a southerly breeze, may
stand along the low land in a line of three and a half or four fathoms
until the flagstaff bears N. 37° E., shipping N, 12° E., House on Shaikh
Shaad N. 28° E. ; then bear away N. 4° E. until the flagstaff bears S. 36°
E., shipping N. 52° E., Old House N. 51° E. (In standing along this
course, a ship will decrease her
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
at low*water to two and a
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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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