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'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [139] (306/524)
The record is made up of 1 volume (451 pages). It was created in 1863-1864. 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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PORTION OF THE PF.RSIAN GULF.
139
I
Our road now lay through a plain with many cultivated fields. Two
miles North of Bunder Heigh we found a range of light grey sandstone
cropping out, and about half a mile from the town a ruined Imam and
four
banyan
Merchant of Indian extraction.
trees; about the same age as the others.
10-30 a. m. —Passed Bunder Heigh.
It seemed a place about half the size of Bunder Diilum.
Our direction was now SE. | S., and the plain rose gradually before
us. There was no cultivation till 1-20. When we arrived at Abu-
Ghreb or the father of North-westers.
Here we found a number of wells of good water and some cultivation.
Our direction was now SE. by S. The plain was level and unculti
vated, with many herds of gazelle, and a large nullah winding snake-like
through it.
At 2-50 we crossed this nullah, and at 4-20 encamped at Hohillahon
the right bank of the river.
Rohiilah is a district consisting of ten villages, about two miles apart
one from the other. The whole looks like a number of farm steadings
with fields of thriving com between. For here the rain has been
abundant.
A large river of drinkable water winds amongst those villages, and
though it might easily be made use of for irrigation, the fields are en
tirely dependant on rain.
Perhaps irrigation is not required, or what is more probable, the
Government would immediately levy such a tax, that the cultivator
would not find it repay the expense and trouble.
The inhabitants rear a number of horses, a mixed breed between the
Arab and Persian, most of which find their way to the Bombay
market.
The people are Arabs, and certainly the happiest we have seen since
leaving the country of the Chaab.
March 21s£.—Mounted at 6-40 a. m. and rode ENE. for the first
bait hour, then East through extensive cultivation, entirely of wheat
and barley, and past some of the Rohillah villages.
7-40.—Forded the Rohillah river; here it is about one hundred
}ards broad, a little over the horses’ girths, and running at about two
miles an hour. Direction ESE.
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The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.
Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1865.
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- 1 volume (451 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving headings and page references, and two indexes. There is an index to Volumes I-XVII (1836-1864) in a separate volume (ST 393, index).
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- 'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1, 1a:1b, 2:16, 1:132, 1:18, 18a:18b, 19:206, 206a:206b, 207:256, 256a:256b, 257:340, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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