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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1502] (575/688)
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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QATAR
Position.
11 miles west-south-
west of Huwailah.
1? miles south-west
of Huwailah.
18 miles north-north
east of the foot of
Dohat Faishshakh
and 9 from the west
coast.
11 miles south-west
of Khor Shaqiq and
' 6 from the east
coast.
3 miles south-east-
of
Zubarah
18th-century town located 105 km from Doha.
and 3,V
from the west coast.
3 miles north of the
foot of Dohat-as-
Salwa and H from
the west coast.
12 miles north of Do-
hah and 2 from the
east coast.
8 miles north-west
of Khor Shaqiq.
Nature.
A Bedouin camping
ground.
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto.
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
R emarks.
At this place are found
a masonry well, 5
fathoms deep, of good
water, and the ruins
of a fort. The fort
is old and the Arabs
have a tradition that
it was built by Per
sians. It is said to
cover a space about
40 yards square and
to have had walls 10
feet thick which in
some places arc still
20 feet high.
There is a masonary
well, 8 fathoms deep,
yielding good water.
A masonary well here, 3
fathoms deep, con
tains good water.
This place has an un-
lined well which
holds good water at 7
fathoms.
Here are 2 masonry
wells of bad water,
2 fathoms deep, and
the ruins of a fort.
A few date trees tended
by Bedouins and 4 or
. r > unlined wells of
brackish water, 1 ^
fathoms deep, are
found here.
There is a masonry
well of brackish water,
2 fathoms deep.
There is good water in
a masonry lined well,
G fathoms deep.
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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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- 'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II'
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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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