'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎43] (208/524)

AROUND THE SHORE LINE OF THE PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . 43
Exports’
Wheat and Barley to the value of. 30,000 krans to Busreh, Koweit, and Lingah.
Wool to the value of 100,000 krans to Bushire and Koweitfor India.
Rogun Cherag to the value of .. 10,000 krans
Grapes and liaisins to the value of/10,000 krans to Koweit and Busreh.
lio o un to the value of «•«••»•••♦ 30,000 krans
Imports.
Piece goods
Sugar
Tea
Dates
150,000 Krans value
50,000 ditto > I : rom Bushire and Koweit.
10,000 ditto 3
50,000 ditto Equal to 1,000 Karehs from Busreh.
Tliese imports go to Belibehan and also Ram Hormuz.
The Customs receipts may be from 15,000 to 20,000 Krans per annum
on both exports and imports together.
42. Between Bunder Deelum and the next port of Bunder Reegh,
lie the traces of the ruins of an ancient port and of ancient cities of
immense extent. This tract has been known as Genaweh from time
immemorial. Its upper portion is a confused tumbling of low, gro
tesquely shaped sandstone and earthy hills ; in parts interesected with
vertical lines of gypsum, cropping up like the jagged edges of broken
plate glass, or strewn over the slopes like pieces of ice. Leaving this
rugged, confused region, you emerge on the beautiful plain of the
ancient Gerarnha, the chief town of Genaweh, whose extensive ruins
still hillock the soil for miles around. Some Hindoo looking temples
still stand on the outskirts towards the beach, with their acorn shaped
domes of spiral brick or stone work, and with their invariable accom
paniments of two or three Banyan Merchant of Indian extraction. trees, the only ones to be found in
the country. The architecture of these temples, and of their neigh
bouring wells, seems still to tell of a time when Kafirs, whether
Hindoos (as tradition asserts) or others, flourished on this plain.
Perhaps from that Port of Grai, the wealth of the lowest layer of
debris in yonder mounds, the earliest Geramhn, was exchanged with
that coming from Edom or Chaldea, through the earliest Geranhensis
near the present Grane or Koweit. It has happened to me to wander
over the traces of many ancient cities. But no reiteration of the scene
ever mitigates the solemnity of its reflection or the gloom of its
forebodings. Whatever may have been the histories of their rise and
fall, one feels, in digging down these strata of silent homes, that they
formed not one city, but successive cities ; each leaving a conglomerate