"مختارات من سجلات حكومة بومباي" [‎٦‎٢‎٥] (٧٣٣/٦٦٩)

GULF OF PERSIA.
to Hoosafine the coast is low, well planted with date trees, and the
shore S regU t0 f0Ur and fiVe fath0mS ' three quarters of a mile 0®
Hoosafine.
Iofr 5 S fZ in'V 0rt T T d ra . ther large village in lat - 240 37 ' 45 " N.,
1 0 ,I ! , It has a few small trading boats, and about two
inndred mhabrtants. Supplies and water may be had here. The
anchorage is good in six fathoms, mud.
Nabbine.
One mile and a quarter to the southward is the fort and villas of
abbme, containing about sixty inhabitants. The coast is safe to navi-
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luar.
Luar it, a large fort, with a town two miles inland, in lat 24° S0 / ^
N., long. 56° 39' 48" E. ft is a place of some importal and 'he
thous'and G™ 111 ' 0 It ' 3114 t ' le P' aces attached to it, is about seven
the Imaum Cr0WnS ; " ^ a Sma11 p0rtioU ,hat to
Maggaese.
Maggacse, a fort and town in lat. 24° 27' 40 // N., lono-. 56° 46' E
has about six hundred inhabitants. It is, with some villages adjacent'
a mart and manufactory of the cotton canvas used by the Arabs for sails
to their vesseis It has a great trade in this, and the canvas is con-
sidered better than that of Bahrein. About forty to sixty thousand
German crowns' value of it is exported every year. The place vields
the Imaum a nominal revenue of two thousand German crowns. Cattle
and poultry are procurable here, also good water. From Hoomook to
this the soundings are regular to four and five fathoms, a little more
than half a mile off shore. The anchorage is in five fathoms, mud
Between this place and Sohar are the villages of Farska and Ras Sallan
each containing about sixty inhabitants, mostly fishermen and cultiva
tors. I he soundings along the coast are regular to Sohar, there beino-
twenty-five fathoms ten miles off shore, and four and five within a
mile of it.
Sohar.
Sohar is the principal town on this part of the coast, containing in
and around it about four thousand inhabitants. It is in lat 24°
N, long. 56° 52' 3" E. It is a place of great trade with the "inland
tribes. It has about forty large boats belonging to it, besides a crreat
number of coasting traders, and is so strong in its resources as frequent
ly to be in open rebellion to the Imaum of Muskat. His revenues from