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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [597] (641/733)
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.
has three villages : one on the north-east side, called Daee, is exactly
one mile west of our latitude and longitude station. The island has
plenty of good water, and many of the wells are near the beach. The
fleet composing the expedition against the pirates in 1820 watered here,,
and it was found fully competent to supply a much larger demand. The
soil is good, but in consequence of there having been no rain the last
season, there is at this time little verdure. Barley and vegetables are
cultivated, and off the island abundance of very fine fish is caught.
The island is twenty-one miles in circumference, and safe to approach
to eight fathoms all round. A reef projects off the island nearly all
round, having from five to one and a half fathoms water. On the outer
edge you have eight fathoms, soft ground, and immediately shoal to
five fathoms, so that no vessel ought to come nearer than eight fathoms.
It extends furthest off the west end, the outer part being one milo
offshore; at no other part does it extend beyond half a mile, and
the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
are regular towards it. The variation at this place was.
3° 40' W. (February 5lh, 1827.)
C harrak H ill.
Charrak Hill, in lat. 26° 38' 7" N., long. 54° 9'54" E. (a small-
hillock on the centre), is a remarkable round hill, situated within tho
range of hills nearest the coast, and is a well known landmark.
C hannel between K enn and the M ain.
The channel between Kenn and the Main is seven miles wide, in ita
narrowest part, with
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
of from thirty-six to five fathoms. In
working through it, ten fathoms towards the island, and fourteen or
fifteen fathoms towards the main, will be good guides in the night j in
the day you may stand in close to the shore on the main, and to seven
or eight fathoms towards the island. Ihere is no danger on the main
but a small spit near Gella Abade, which does not extend above three-
quarters of a mile offshore.
T awoona.
Tawoona, in lat. 26° 42' 15" N., long. 54° 15' E., is a small town at
the entrance of Charrak Bay, situated round the fort, which is built
on a rock near the beach, and is inhabited by about one hundred and
e i§|hty men, of the Beni Baphar Tribe. It has a few trading boats, and
was, duiing the time the pirates were in power, in alliance with them,
C harrak.
Charrak, in lat. 26° 42' 52' / N., long. 54° 11' 16" E., is situated al?
the bottom of the bay of the same name. It is a place of some trade,
and has six Buggalows, from sixty to one hundred and twenty tons, and
twenty smaller trading vessels, belonging to it. It contains about nine
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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