"مختارات من سجلات حكومة بومباي" [‎٦‎٣‎٠] (٧٣٣/٦٧٤)

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M utt ar ah.
Muttarah is a small village, inhabited by merchants and their slaves,
in a small cove, a qi^arter of a mile to the eastward of Muttra,
Rum.
Riam is a village, inhabited by merchants and their slaves, in a small
cove, one mile ENE. of Muttra. In this covp there are three fathoms
water a cable-length from the shore. The northeast point is also the'
east point of Muttra Bay.
K hulboo.
Khulboo is a small town, also inhabited by merchants and ship
builders. It is situated in a cove formed by the northseast point of
Riam Cove and Ras Muskat. The cove is half a mile wide, and half a
mile deep, and has soundings of ten fathoms across the entrance to three
fathoms inside, a cablc-Jength from the shore.
R as M uskat.
Ras Muskat is the west point of Muskat Cove, and is high and bluff,
with three and four fathoms water close to it.
R as S eei^ah.
Ras Seorah is the north-west point of Muskat Island, and east point
of the cove. It is in lat. 23° 38' 50* N. The island from this point to
the gap in Muskat Cove is one mile long, and a quarter of a mile wide
in the broadest part.
F isherman's R oci^,
Fisherman's Rock is about two hundred and eighty yards off the
bluff of Ras Seerah, and twenty off the low rocky point. There is a
small boat channel, with two and a half fathoms, between them. Out.
side the rock there are seven fathoms within five yards of it, You
should pass close round it going into the cove.
IVI uskat C ove.
Muskat Cove is formed by Ras Muskat on the east, and Fisherman's
Rock and Ras Seerah on the west, Muskat Island forming the whole
of that side, while the cape running out from Muskat and Khulboo forms
the other. It is rather more than three quarters of a mile wide between
the points on the west s\4e. Between a small point with a half-moon
and other batteries or^ jt, and JiUa Farsah, is a bay where the ships
and large boats are laid up and repaired, being sheltered from most
winds. In the cove there is room, exclusive of the bay just described,
for forty or fifty sail of ships and large vessels, the soundings shoaling
rom thirteen and fourteen fathoms at the entrance to three fathoms
out a quarter of a mile from the bottom of the cove. The cove is