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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1088] (125/688)
The record is made up of 1 volume (341 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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1088
KUWAIT PRINCIPALITY
Name.
Maqta' (Jaz'rat-al)
Manifah ('Adamat
or Jabal).
Misha'ab (Hadd-al-)
Misha'ab (Bandar)
Position.
1| miles south of
Hadd- al -Mishi'ab,
off the coast of the
Sudah District.
17 miles north-west
of Mussallamlyah
Bay, on the south-
em boundary of the
Sudah District.
90 miles south-south
east of Kuwait
Town on the coast
of the Sudah Dis
trict.
3| miles south-east
of Hadd-al-Misha'-
ab. ♦
Nature. Remarks.
Inland of the Khors
are some brackish
wells named Hahan-
namiyah. A pearl
bank called Khiran
lies off this stretch
of coast.
2 miles long north
east and south-west,
with cliffs 20 to 30
feet high at the east
end. No channel
exists between
Maqta' and the
mainland. The
island is said to be
to a great extent
submerged at high
spring t.des.
A promontory of some
height. It may be
taken as marking the
boundary on the
coast between the
principality of Ku
wait and
This cape is low and
sandy with patches
of cliff. From its
neighbourhood a
chain of pearl banks
is said to extend for
some 60 miles east
wards or south-east
wards out to sea.
21 miles wide at the
entrance, depth 6 to
7 fathoms, situated
between the spit at
the east end of
Maqta' Island and a
detached reef to the
south of it.
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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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- 1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system 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.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 975:1092, 1092a:1092f, 1093:1110, 1110a:1110f, 1111:1328, 1328a:1328f, 1329:1386, 1386a:1386f, 1387:1446, 1446a:1446f, 1447:1448, 1448a:1448f, 1449:1542, 1542a:1542f, 1543:1600, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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