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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [611] (655/733)
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.
611
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N early E ast op E l K ron.
Nearly east of El Kron, distant eight or nine miles, is a small patch,
with only five fathoms on it.
Remarks. —From lat. 27° SQ' N., long. 49° 24/ E., to the island of
El Kron, northerly to the Boosafaa or Durable Shoal, to the south-east
enclosing the islands of Yeredel, Jennee, and the Mullamael Shoals, is
full of patches and shoals, and should not be attempted to be navigated
at night, nor yet in the day, without a pilot, unless well acquainted with
the place.
R ocky K noll.
Rocky Knoll is very small, and nearly dry, in lat. 26° 59' 30" N.,
long. 49° 56' 80" E. ;
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
ten and seven fathoms close to it.
T hree small P atches.
Three small patches extend from lat. 27° 13' N., long. 50° E., in a
south-west direction, nine miles.
A S hoal.
A shoal, the shoalest part of which has two and a half fathoms on it,
lies in lat. 27° 8' N., long. 50° 9' 30" E. It is three miles long, in a
north-east direction.
M ullamael S hoal.
The shoalest part of Mallamael Shoal, two and a quarter fathoms, is
in lat. 26° 59' N., long. 50° 16' 40" E. This shoal is oblong, and has
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
in the other parts from three to seventeen fathoms, very irre
gular.
B oosafaa, or D urable S hoal,
The northern part of Boosafaa or Durable Shoal is in lat. 26° 59' N.,
long. 50° 24' 20" E., and extends six miles S. 30° E. true. It has barely
one fathom on it at low-water. In approching it from the northward,
the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
shoal suddenly after twenty fathoms. The ship Durable,
Guthrie, Master, was lost here in 1817, which was the first of the shoal's
existence being known to Europeans.
E pheraii P earl B ank.
Epherah Pearl Bank is a bank of rocks, and considered one of the
richest of the pearl banks. It has sixteen fathoms water to the north
ward, and ten to the southward. On the bank, the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
are
irregular, from four to eight fathoms. The centre of the bank is in
lat. 26° 50' N., long. 50° 37' 30' / E, It is about five miles over from
north to south, and about ten miles from east to west.
F asht S urrah.
Fasht Surrah is in lat. 26 3 40' N., long. 50° 36' E., to lat. 26° 36' N.,
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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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