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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [604] (648/733)
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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NAVIGATION OF THE
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closed to the Kishm shore, steer about E. by S. i S., until off the village
of Peypusht, attending particularly to your
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
, and not comin^
under six fathoms. You may now steer along the Kishm shore in
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
of from six to twelve or thirteen fathoms, at a distance of a
large quarter of a mile, until you come to the village of Durgaum
You must now steer out NE. by E. i E. to NE. by E.: this will
carry you out of the straits, in
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
of from six to eleven fathoms.
M osha.
Mosha is a village opposite Bassadore, with a few inhabitants,
mostly fishermen and wood-cutters. From this to the commence-
ment of the jungles the coast is uninhabited. The jungles begin about
thirteen miles above this place, and continue on the Persian side to
about lat. 26° 57' 30" N., long. 55° 47' E.
K ammeer.
Kammeer is in lat. 26° 56' 40' / N., long. 55° 40' 20" E., and belongs
to the Tmaum of Muskat. It has large mines of sulphur, and very
large quantities are annually exported.
A n old M osque.
An old mosque stands in lat. 27° 40' N., long. 56° 9' E. In this old
building A\ere found written up the names of many persons, supposed
to be oi the old English
factory
An East India Company trading post.
, some of them dated as far back as 1727.
S esoor.
1 Sesoor 18 a small village, with a town, in lat. 27° 9' N., long. 56° 16'
E. It has about one hundred inhabitants, mostly fishermen.
B under A bbas.
Bunder Abbas is in lat. 27° 10' 35" N., long. 56° 18' 48 // E. It was
once a town of great trade and importance, but has much fallen off: it
sti has a considerable trade, the amount of customs averaging eight to
ten t on sand German crowns. Tobacco and dried fruits from Persia
are exported ; English piece goods and China and India goods to the
amount of two or three
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
are the imports. These things
nd their way into the interior of Persia by this route, since the disturb
ances at Bushire.
This place is said to be increasing in trade. There are very exten-
sunor'" 11 ^ •n^ 1 ' 3
factory
An East India Company trading post.
, which must have been a very
The oM ^ IT 5 ' are the rUinS of two block h ™ s es in front of it.
ferns the "pLelrom TheT ^ ^ the ImaUm 0f MUS ' Iat ' Wh0
population nf 1 . he Persian Government. It has a fluctuating
Persians, but therTLeTf ^ ^ Ve . thousand P ^ple, mostly Arabs and
ew Banians and Armenians settled here.
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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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- Title
- '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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