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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [616] (660/733)
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
the river Anamis of Arrian, where Nearchus arrived on the eightieth
day after quitting the Indus, and where he hauled his fleet on shore
to repair, and afterwards went inland and joined Alexander, and
after ten days he again put to sea. I should think the place where
the present custom house stands must have been the place of the
Grecian camp, and Mina or Minnow probably the place of Alexander's
encampment.
K har ron.
Kharron is a small village, with a port for small trading boats, in lat.
26 J 54' N., long. 56° 58' 30 // E. The
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
from Minnow river
to this place are regular, from four to eight fathoms off the edge of the
flat, which extends two miles off'shore.
K aisrak.
Kaisrak is a small village, eight and a half miles from Kharron.
Y arrown.
\ arrown is a small village, four miles from Kaisrak, inhabited
by about sixty fishermen.
G ron.
Gron is a small town in lat. 26° 35' 40 // N., long. 57° 5' 45" E. It
has a grove of date trees inland of it. A few cattle and poultry may
be piocured here from Kharron. To this place the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
are regu
lar, from five and a half to ten fathoms.
K onaree.
Konaiee is a fort and town, situated up a river. It is in lat. 26° 15'
N., long. o7 0 lb' SO' 7 E. The entrance to the small river leading to it
is in lat. 26 lo 50 N., long. 57° 6'E. The
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
two miles off
shore are eight and ten fathoms, and regular from five to twelve
fathoms between Gron and this place.
jlbbul serraowr.
Jibbul Serraowr is a remarkable hill, in lat. 26° 8' 49" N., long.
57° 19' 30" E.
H as A ysheer.
Ras Aysheer is in lat. 26° V 45" N., long. 57° 11' 50" E. From
onaiee livei to this place a flat runs off, with patches of rock nearly
ry? our and a half miles ;
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
off it five to fifteen fathoms.
J ibbul B ees.
lO^ 1 5068 18 a high hil1 inland ' in lat - 26° 9' 10" N., long. 57° 38'
K oor M oobaruk.
sandv fM 00 ^ 1 ^ ^ ^ remark able, isolated rock, situated on a low
j a n ias a remarkable perforation on its eastern corner,
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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