"مختارات من سجلات حكومة بومباي" [‎٥‎٨‎٩] (٧٣٣/٦٣٣)

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GULF OF PERSIA.
five and a half fathoms. A course now S.byE. will take you fairly
down to the line of ten fathoms on the Burdistan Bank, which should
be crossed in this depth.
If a beating wind, you should not stand off'into more than twenty-
eight fathoms, and inshore at night into less than eight fathoms, unless
above the Asses Ears, in which case you may stand into five or six
fathoms; in the day-time, you may approach the shore to four fathoms,
being to the southward of the Asses Ears. Twenty-eight fathoms off
shore, to five or six fathoms inshore in the day-time, and seven or eight
fathoms in the night, will be safe working, until you reach Yabreen
Island.
J ezeerat M ulgassab.
Jezeerat Mulgassab is a low, narrow island, about five and a half
miles long, extending from Yabreen Island, in lat. 27° 50' SO" N., long.
51° 32 A E. Within is a narrow channel with twelve or fourteen fathoms,
but blocked up at each end. You may approach this island to five
fathoms in the day, and seven in the night.
M onakeela, or M ongeller.
Monakeela, or Mongeller, is a low, sandy island, joined on to
Mulgassab by a reef nearly dry at low-water. It has date trees on it,
and the ruins of an old building, and is in lat. 27° 49' 15" N., long. 51°
SS' 10 // E,; variation 3° 40 A W. in 1827. High-water full and change
7h. 50m.; rise and fall seven feet. It may be seen about eight or
nine miles from the deck of a ship of four hundred tons.
H as M oosalyee,
Has Moosalyee is a low point within the reefs on the main, in lat.
27° 53' 20" N., long. 51° 32' SO 7 E. About a mile and a half to the
eastward is a small sandy island of the same name.
M ulgurram.
Mulgurram is a low point of the main, in lat. 27° 50 r 30' / N., long.
51° 38' E. South-west a mile and a half is Jezeerat Mulgurram, a
small woody island. There is a gut between it and the point, with ten
fathoms in it, and there is a fathom and a half at low-water on the bank
without it. In this gut the Congoon boats are laid up when dismasted
for the season.
G ebil B ering, or H ummocks of K enn.
Gebil Dering, or the Hummocks of Kenn, form a well known land
mark, in lat. 28° 3' 55 // N., long. 51° 47' 27" E. (the centre hummock).
When the centre hummjock bears N. 26° W. true, you are clear of the
reef or foul ground, and may stand in on that line to five fathoms.