'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎237] (412/524)

Art, XV .—Remarks on the Port of Ling ah, the Island of Kishm>
and the Port of Bunder Abbass, and its neighbourhood. By Lieu-
tenant Colonel Lewis Felly, Acting Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian
Gulf Contributed by Government*
[Read before the Society, April 21st, 1864.]
No. 6 of 1864,
Political Department,
from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Felly, Acting Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. ,
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
To W. II. Havelock, Esquire,
Officiating Secretary to Government, Bombay.
Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. hi the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. dated Bus hire,
16th January 1864.
Sir,
As proposed in rny letter now marginally noted, I left Bushire by the
last mail steamer and landed at Lingah,
No. 147 of 1863, dated 28th whence I came on to Bassidore, visiting
November 1863, Secret Depart- the ^ Cayes and Naptha Springs on
the Island of Kisbin, and so, passing
down the Clarence Straits, touched at Khumeer to see the formations
of sulphur and red ochre, and thence, passing on to Bunder Abbass,
awaited there the return of the mail steamer to Bushire, visiting in the
meantime the Island of Hormuz.
2 . An appended tracing from the chart, obligingly prepared for me
by Captain Warner, shows my line of route.
3 . I have now the honour to submit a few additional remarks in
continuation of those contained in my
No. 67 of 1863, dated 13th general sketch of the Trade in the Fer
ment 1 1863; P ° litiCal Depart ' sian Gulf, concerning in particular the
Port of Lingah, the Island ol Kishni,
and the Port of Bunder Abbass and its neighbourhood.