'File 3/4 BOOKS ETC: ROUTES IN OMAN' [23r] (45/72)
The record is made up of 1 file (34 folios). It was created in c 1935. 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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KOUTE
S H A K J A H to M U R A I K .
60 milab.
5 bta^tib.
Autnoritiab. Nativi inromation collidctcid lay Major
P. Z. Cox and Lieutenant C. H. Gabriel,
Gener al Descriptio n, A caravan tracK running acrubb a
bare desert of wnite sand for the
first 2b miles, and then over a
shingly plateau for about lb miles at which point a moun
tainous ridge has to be negotiated. The ascent of this
On ridge is made up easy watercourses, but the descent is
* more abrupt. The track then runs along the bed of a val
ley down to the coast.
Water . Very scarce throughout stage I, though plentiful
at DTI AID • Scarce during stage 2, but plentiful
^ again in the TADI AL OOR.
PV
ffuel & Podaer . Scarce during stage I, but plentiful
thereafter.
Sullies
IT 1 1 exc ep t at SHAR j Ah ( q. v. )
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The file contains descriptions of eleven routes in Muscat and Oman, and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , drawing on various sources of information. The entry for each route gives a general description, the distance, and the number of stages/approximate travelling time. The routes are:
- Dibah to Ras al Khaimah
- Abu Dhabi to Baraimi
- Mahot to Muti
- Minhah to 'Ibri
- Sur to Minhah
- Umm al Qawain to Fujairah
- Dibai [Dubai] to Shinas
- Sharjah to Murair
- Sib to Muti
- Sohar to Baraimi.
The sources of information include journeys undertaken and information collected by British officers (with dates), especially Major Percy Zachariah Cox and Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles; the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer (1908); and native information.
The descriptions include details of settlements, inhabitants, topography, vegetation, caravan routes, water supply, fuel and fodder, forts and similar structures, and cultivation and livestock. Typescript, with occasional manuscript notes in red ink containing queries about the information provided.
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- 1 file (34 folios)
- Arrangement
A list of the routes described appears on folio 3.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 36; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/R/15/6/125
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- 'File 3/4 BOOKS ETC: ROUTES IN OMAN'
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- front, front-i, 2r:35v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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