"مختارات من سجلات حكومة بومباي" [‎٥‎٣‎٤] (٧٣٣/٥٧٨)

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NAVIGATION OF THE
PART I.*
ARABIAN SIDE OF THE GULF.
H as M usseldom.
Ras Musseldom, in lat. 26° 23' 45 // N., long. 56° 35' lO' 7 E., is the
south-eastern point of the Gulf of Persia, and the outer or lowest point
of the island of the same name. The island is a barren rook, about
two miles m length, and half that in breadth. Its highest part is about
four or five hundred feet, formed of steep cliffs. All round the cape
is the lowest part, which is about thirty feet high, increasing in some
parts to one hundred and fifty. It is at the southern entrance of the
Gulf. Between the island (Jazeerat Musseldom) and the opposite
promontory of Ras Goberhindee there is a channel, with from twenty
to forty fathoms in it; the narrowest part is not quite one-third of
a m.le wide, and the currents being strong and irregular, together with
being liable to sudden shifts of wind, it is unsafe for navigation.
H as G oberhindee.
Has Goberhindee (Cape of the Indian's Grave), or Ras-ool-Gebal
is rrT f a P e) ' the f ame b y wMch it is best known to the Arabs,
is the Maceta of the Greeks, and part of the Asabo or Black Mountains
of the ancients ; is in lat. 26° 22' 18" N., long. 56° 33' 44" E • is oddo-
site to Jazeerat Musseldom, and is about one hundred and fifty or one
hundred and eighty feet perpendicular above the sea.
R as-ool- B ab.
Ras-ool-Bab is a high, remarkable promontory, consisting of basal-
noint f ; K nea K y ^ by S : fr0 . ra RaS Gobe rtindee, and forms one
entrant ^ a - , ' a 0 " t ' ree mdes in depth, and one in breadth. At its
ntrance, round the whole of which the land is high, barren and
to the rocks TtT Tf' 0111 tWent - v - e ig ht '0 forty fathoms close
the rocks, the bottom hard sand and rocks. This bay should never
the wiXbrfflilg/ViretoR^To^iltsr^'T- bad '
rock with floor. i ■ stands a high perpendicular
you are close to it^ ^ C 086 ^ ^ ^ appears a P art of tIle ca P e until
K oomza,
Koomza is a town situated at the bottom nf * ™ u ■
tiom ol a cove, having soundings
¥ Dated 21 st August 1829.