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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [625] (669/733)
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.
to Hoosafine the coast is low, well planted with date trees, and the
shore S regU t0 f0Ur and fiVe fath0mS ' three quarters of a mile 0®
Hoosafine.
Iofr 5 S fZ in'V 0rt T T d ra . ther large village in lat - 240 37 ' 45 " N.,
1 0 ,I ! , It has a few small trading boats, and about two
inndred mhabrtants. Supplies and water may be had here. The
anchorage is good in six fathoms, mud.
Nabbine.
One mile and a quarter to the southward is the fort and villas of
abbme, containing about sixty inhabitants. The coast is safe to navi-
£*™:,lnT£££l* hne t0 H00m00,£ ' a Vi,lase 111 - ^
luar.
Luar it, a large fort, with a town two miles inland, in lat 24° S0 / ^
N., long. 56° 39' 48" E. ft is a place of some importal and 'he
thous'and G™ 111 ' 0 It ' 3114 t ' le P' aces attached to it, is about seven
the Imaum Cr0WnS ; " ^ a Sma11 p0rtioU ,hat to
Maggaese.
Maggacse, a fort and town in lat. 24° 27' 40 // N., lono-. 56° 46' E
has about six hundred inhabitants. It is, with some villages adjacent'
a mart and manufactory of the cotton canvas used by the Arabs for sails
to their vesseis It has a great trade in this, and the canvas is con-
sidered better than that of Bahrein. About forty to sixty thousand
German crowns' value of it is exported every year. The place vields
the Imaum a nominal revenue of two thousand German crowns. Cattle
and poultry are procurable here, also good water. From Hoomook to
this the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
are regular to four and five fathoms, a little more
than half a mile off shore. The anchorage is in five fathoms, mud
Between this place and Sohar are the villages of Farska and Ras Sallan
each containing about sixty inhabitants, mostly fishermen and cultiva
tors. I he
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
along the coast are regular to Sohar, there beino-
twenty-five fathoms ten miles off shore, and four and five within a
mile of it.
Sohar.
Sohar is the principal town on this part of the coast, containing in
and around it about four thousand inhabitants. It is in lat 24°
N, long. 56° 52' 3" E. It is a place of great trade with the "inland
tribes. It has about forty large boats belonging to it, besides a crreat
number of coasting traders, and is so strong in its resources as frequent
ly to be in open rebellion to the Imaum of Muskat. His revenues from
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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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