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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [59] (73/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (112 folios). It was created in 1933. 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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CHAP. II. GEOGRAPHY QATAR.
59
Name.
Rodhat-Al -Ajuzah
Sahalah .
Sahnat (Umm-as)
Sailiyah .
Sakak
Sakhamah
Position.
13 miles south
west of Khor
Shaqiq and 10
from the east
coast.
21 miles west of
Dohah.
8 miles south-
w e s t of
HuWailah.
13 miles west
by south of
Dohah.
About 44 miles
south-west of
Dohah.
13 miles south-
south-west of
Khor Shaqiq
and 5 west of
Lusail.
Remarks.
Good water
40 ft. deep.
from well,
A masonry well contains
good water at 120 ft.
Masonry well with
water 40 ft.
good
A stage on the route from
Hofuf to Dohah.
A masonry well and some
small date plantations.
A garden of about 4 acres
enclosed by a neat, low
wall of mud and
bordered on all sides by a
line of tamarisk trees.
The gaiden was laid out
by Jasim-bin-Thani, the
principal Shaikh in
Qatar ; it contains about
300 date palms, some,
pomegranate trees, and
cultivation of lucerne.
Irrigation is from 8 large
masonry wells, 40 ft.
deep, each of which is
worked by a pair of
donkeys. There are quar
ters for the gardeners,
who are all negroes ; also
a small rest house for
the Shaikh which, having
a roofless tower, appears
to have an upper storey.
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The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volume in the spelling 'Bahrein'.
The volume contains information in separate sections for each of the places listed in the title under the following chapter headings:
- I Historical (ff 8-14);
- II Geography, Climate, Health (ff 15-54);
- III Population (ff 54-67);
- IV Water Supply; Resources (ff 68-70);
- V Armed Forces (ff 70-75);
- VI Aviation (ff 75-78);
- VII Political (ff 79-81);
- VIII Inter-Communication [wireless and telegraph] (ff 81-82);
- IX Communications [land routes] (ff 83-98).
There are three appendices, which follow the same format:
- I Currency, Weights and Measures (f 99-102);
- II Landing Facilities - Maritime (ff 103-106);
- III List of Maps (f 106).
The volume includes five maps of the region (ff 109-113).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (112 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 113 on the last of the five maps inserted in a pocket attached to the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. All five maps (ff 109, 110, 111, 112, 113) need to folded out to be examined. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages in the volume.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-198 appears between ff 8-106.
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- 'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:iii-r, ii-v, iv-r:iv-v, 1:4, 1:208, v-r:v-v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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