'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. II. Geographical and Statistical. J G Lorimer. 1908' [‎1426] (1537/2084)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (1952 pages). It was created in 1908. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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1426 'OMAK (TRTTCIAL)
Sultanate on tlie east to Qatar and the Jafurah desert on the west requires
that the region should be treated as a geographical unit.
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For discussions of the ancient geography Sprenger's Alte G-eograpUe Arahiens, bf) are
1875, and Miles Note on Pliny s QtograpJiy of the East Coast of Arabia, 1875, UjaDie.
may be consulted. a j
The principal authority in regard to the geography of Trucial 'Oman has hitherto !i
been the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot, 1898, in which the coast and all maritime features are P^ 1
fully described, but little is said of the interior; similarly restricted in its scope, L jj East
for the most part, is the older information contained in Bomhay Selections XXIV,
1856. Valuable though early authorities on the country are Whitelock's Account of ^
the Arabs, etc., and his Description of the Arabian Coast, 1836-38, the former of lii' ® 1
which is occupied largely with the subject of population. Trade, as it was in 1863,and U
questions of local resources, taxation, etc., are fully dealt with by Pelly in his Report |0l)|
on the Tribes, etc., around the Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1863, in which some older ,
statistics for 1826 and 1831 are also quoted. Eecent topographical and other infer- i 18 *
mation regarding the interior is due almost entirely to Major P. Z. Cox, among whose
communications the following are important: his Notes to accomvany Slcetch Map of ^
Route ... from Abu Thabi to Mashat in the Proceedings of the Government of India '
in the Foreign Department for December 1903 (relating to the route between Abu
Dhabi Town and the Baraimi Oasis) ; his letter No. 290 of the 2nd July 1902 in njlmk
Foreign Department Proceedings for November 1902, (relating to the Shamailiyah ^ ^
district) ; and the eiidosure to his letter No. 1800 of the 5th August 1906, as Resident
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. to the Secretary in the Foreign Department to the Government! W 111181
of India (describing the route from E-as-al-Khaimall Town to the Baraimi Oasis). jTpoti
The only other modern account of any part of the country at a distance from the coast
will be found in the Rev. S. M. Zwemer's Three Journeys in Northern Oman, 1902;
but a recent description of places on the coast, accompanied by photographs, is given by
Burchardt in his Ost-Arabien von Basra bis Masqat, 1906.
The Annual Administration and Commercial Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. yy
are the principal source of information in regard to trade.
The map which accompanies this Gazetteer is the most useful, for general purposes,
of Trucial 'Oman ; its predecessor in this respect was that known as Parts of Arabia fltprii
and Persia, 1883, on the same scale. Smaller portions of the region are shown on a
larger scale in the Boute of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Bisbrowe ... and Captain | _
"Walter Powell... from Dihba in the Indian Ocean to Pas-el-Khymah in the Persian s.
Gulf, 1865, and in the Bovte taken by Major P. Z. Cox and Lieutenant
C. A. Scott, B.I.M., from Bas-al-Khaima to Sohar via Beraimi, 1905 ; the former
of these is map No. 1366 in the Library of the Foreign Department, Simla, and the
latter was reproduced by the Survey of India in 1907. A Map of Dhafrah, Liwah,^
etc., 1906, compiled by Major Cox from native information, gives the topography o ^ ^
that tract so far as it couid be ascertained and is filed as map No. 1367 in the Library
of the Foreign Department, Simla; and one by Captain F. B. Prideanx, 0 1 1C ® H;
Agent in Bahrain, from a similar source,— Map of Jafurah, 'Agal, Mijan an ^
Sabakhat Matti, 1906, Foreign Department Library No. 1365 -is the best for the .
tracts mentioned in its title, but is not of equal authority with Major Cox s a ra ^ ^ ^
map for those further to eastward. ''Idair, jjj
The whole coast of Trncial 'Oman "appears in Charts Nos. 2373-2837A and 2374-
2837B of the Persian G-ulf ; and Chart No. 2875-753,
Gulft contains parts of the same on a larger scale, viz,, the stretch rem i ^
Hill!

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This volume is Volume II of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1908) compiled by John Gordon Lorimer. The volume is a geographical dictionary with a series of alphabetically arranged articles relating to the physical and political conditions of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and its surrounding areas.

Pages i-iv are an 'Introduction' to the volume written by John Gordon Lorimer at Strathmartine, Dundee, on 24 December 1908. Details are given within the introduction concerning the content and arrangement of principal and subordinate articles and explanations of estimates of distance and time and other statistical information.

Lorimer's introduction identifies the principal articles as:

'’Omān Sultanate' (pages 1382-1425);
'’Omān (Trucial)' [ Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ] (pages 1425-1451);
'Qatar' (pages 1505-1535);
'Bahrain Principality' (pages 233-253);
'Hasa Sanjāq' (pages 657-679);
'Kuwait Principality' (pages 1058-1077);
'Najd' (pages 1313-1351), supplemented by articles on 'Najd (Southern)' (pages 1351-1359), 'Qasīm' (pages 1485-1503) and 'Shammar (Jabal)' (pages 1732-1748);
'’Irāq (Turkish)' (pages 759-882);
'’Arabistān' (pages 115-151), suppplemented by articles on '’Arabistān (Northern)' (pages 151-157) and '’Arabistān (Southern)' (pages 157-165);
'Persian Coast' (pages 1455-1468);
'Makrān (Coast of Persian)' (pages 1130-1155).

All articles have a similar form. The English and Arabic place or tribe name appears in the right or left margin, followed by the text of the article split into sub-sections and with topographical information arranged in tables. Arabic words are given in the text next to their equivalent transliterated into Latin script, with the transliteration system employed appearing in 'Appendix S' in Volume I, Part II (IOR/L/PS/20/C91/2, pages 2737-2741).

Topics of information contained within the articles include: boundaries and sub-divisions; physical character and main features (for example, mountains and rivers); climate and seasons; natural products (vegetable, animal and mineral); agriculture and crops; livestock, including transport animals; inhabitants, with reference to racial and tribal distinctions, religious differences, mode of life, character, language, customs, dress and arms, and estimates of populations; trade (internal and external), with notice to currency, weights and measures, shipping, manufactures and industries, and miscellaneous occupations; communications by land and water, with descriptions of routes and estimates of transport; administration and government, especially police, justice, military resources, taxation and finance, and political constitution; and, international position and foreign interests, especially British and their representation in the country. Lorimer refers readers to the Appendices of Volume I, Part II (IOR/L/PS/20/C91/2, pages 2205-2741) for fuller details concerning: meteorology, health, date cultivation, transport animals and livestock, religions and sects, trade, sailing vessels, fisheries, pearl fisheries, and postal and telegraphic communications.

There are fifty-six folios lacking page numbers that contain illustrations. The images are labelled as follows:

'Wādi Bani Habīb in Jabal Akhdar'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'A Creek near Basrah from the Shatt=al=’Arab'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Bridge of Boats, Baghdād'. Photographer: Major G Arbuthnot;
'The Hanaini well, Bahrain Island'. Photographer: John Calcott Gaskin;
'Ancient Tumuli, Bahrain Island'. Photographer: John Calcott Gaskin;
'Village of Qatārah Baraimi Oasis'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'The ’Ashshār creek in Basrah Town'. Photographer: Mr Albert Charles Wratislaw;
'The British Consulate. Basrah, from the Shatt=al=’Arab. (Consulate building on the right of picture)'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Parade of British and Persian troops at Rīshehr, 1905';
'Part of the town of Būshehr';
'The Sea Front, Būshehr Town';
'The British Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Būshehr';
'Bridge at Buziyeh'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'The Fort [Qasr al-Ḥuṣn] of the Shaikh at Abu Dhabi'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'The Shaikh of Sharjah's Fort at Dhaid, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. '. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Dizfūl Town'. Photographer: Major G Arbuthnot;
'Dohah in Qatar'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'A Canal in the Fallāhiyeh District'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'A Creek at Fāo'. Photographer: Mr W D Cumming;
'Muti at the head of Wādi Halfain'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Near the village of Qārah in the Hasa Oasis'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'The village of Qārah in the Hasa Oasis'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'Desert bewteen the Hasa Oasis and Qatar'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'The Imāmzādeh of Haidar Karār at the place of formation of the Hindiyān River'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'The Hindyān River near Zaidān'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'General View of Hofūf'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'The Na’āthil Quarter, Hofūf'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'Hormuz - View from the old Fort'. Photographer: Raja King Deen Dayal & Sons;
'Crowd at Rās=al-Khaimah'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Rās=al-Khaimah, looking towards Ruūs=al=Jibāl'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Kumzār'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'The foreshore Kuwait, showing boat harbour'. Photographer: John Calcott Gaskin;
'Camel riders of the Shaikh of Kuwait'. Photographer: Raja King Deen Dayal & Sons;
'Lingeh';
'The Tīs Valley in Persian Makrān'. Photographer: Mr R H New;
'Country between the Bīr and Kair Rivers in Persian Makrān'. Photographer: Mr R H New;
'Mouth of the Tīs valley looking seawards'. Photographer: Mr R H New;
'The British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Manāmah, Bahrain'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'An Arab of the Manāsīr tribe'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'The Cemetery, Maqlab. (From A Photograph in the Possession of H Gabler, Esq, I E T D)';
'Eastern end of Masqat Town, British Consulate on the left, Sultan's palace on the right'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'West end of Masqat Town from Sultan's Palace. & Fort Mīrāni'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Centre and Western end of Masqat Town with part of the Harbour'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'View of Wādi Mi’aidin from Sharaijah'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'River Scene Muhammareh'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Two Views of Muhammareh Town'. Photographer: John Calcott Gaskin;
'Persian Battery at Muhammareh'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'View at Haz’=Dhabi, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. '. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'’Oqair Port'. Photographer: Herr Hermann Burchardt;
'Salt Rocks on Qishm Island near Namakdān'. Photographer: Raja King Deen Dayal & Sons;
'The "Earl Canning" lying in Elphinstone inlet, Ruus=al=Jibal 1868. [Head of Inlet.] From A Photograph in the Possession of H Gabler, Esq, I E T D)';
' Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Samail near Hisn Samail'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Eastern Face of Jabal=ash=Sham';
'The port of Sur'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'Bilād=as=Sur'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox;
'The Fort of Wakrah, Qatar'. Photographer: Major Percy Zachariah Cox.

Extent and format

1 volume (1952 pages)

Arrangement

Following the title pages and 'Introduction', entries are arranged in alphabetical order from '’Abādilah' to 'Zubair Town'.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The foliation sequence is circled in pencil in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 1034. It should be noted that f. 192 is followed by f. 192A.

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Title: 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. II. Geographical and Statistical. J G Lorimer. 1908'
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