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'File 3/4 BOOKS ETC: ROUTES IN OMAN' [33r] (65/72)
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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No. of Stage &
tptal distance. Route
SOHAF.. An important town on the BATINAE coast of
the 'OMAN Sultanate. It is walled on the
landward side and contains a huge, square, four
storeyed fort of bricic. The houses in the town ^rop-
^ er are built of mud ana stone, those in the extra
mural quarters being of date matting. The total
population is probably about 7,bOO souls. The bazaar
contains about £00 shops. Water is assumed to be
plentiful, but no precise information is available.
Fuel and fodder are plentiful, especially the for
mer. The supplies consist of dates, and negligible
quantities of lucerne, wheat and sugar. Mangoes
and limes are also plentiful. There are a few
transport animals available ; and there are about 8
sea-going, and 30 smaller craft.
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2/?6
3AHAILAH 26 M miles.
(£ m. )
Travellers leave SOHAR by 8ALLAN. The road after
leaving the belt of palm groves and cultivation
round SOHAH runs for an hour to 'AUHI, a little
patch of date groves and gardens, and then turns west
over a stony and gradually rising plain covered with
thin acacia jungle and underwood. At ‘AITII, o 2 m. ,
fruit and transport animals. Route then passes by
FALAJ AL GABAIL to FALAJ AS SUQ, and 2 or 3 miles
from here it strikes the
WADI
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
AL JIZI which it fill-
ows for 4 miles and then leaves, diverging to the
right for 9 miles and rejoining the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
again at
SAHAILAH. At 16 m. is the village of SIHLAT, pict
uresquely situated on the top of a hill. Between here
and HAIL the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
contains flowing water.At MLAIYIN-
AH, 20 m., ,he ascent becomes more steep and winding.
Just below here, where the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
narrows considerably,
is an arched aqueduct solid masonry, which car
ries water to the village of AL GHARRAQ, half-way be
tween SIHLAT and MILAIYINAH. SAHAILAH is a village
of about 100 houses.
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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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