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'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [208] (381/524)
The record is made up of 1 volume (451 pages). It was created in 1863-1864. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Art. Xll.—Report on the line of Telegraph from Ras Jashh to
Basrah* By Lieutenant A. W. Stiffe, Indian Navy.
[Read before the Society, March 17th, 1864.]
Tfie annexed plans show exactly the best routes for the cable, with
the bearings and lengths of the short straight pieces of which it is made
up, the table giving an abstract of the same, and the total length of
cable.
Excepting a distance of 105 miles between Fan and a point 15 miles
SW. of Khareg island, the whole extent of the cable can be accurately
intersected by angles 2, 3, or 4 shore objects, when the weather is
clear.
Jashh to Musendom, —The cable would pass Ras Jashk at 2 miles
distance in 50 fathoms soft green mud. As there is only half a mile
between 18 and 55 fathoms, it would be desirable here for a Pilot ship
to take up a position in advance, on the edge of the shoal-water. From
Ras Jashk it should take a course, as shown on the plan, to Ghubbet
Gazireh, the object of the slight detour being to avoid the shoal-water
to the Westward of Jashk; a Pilot vessel would be desirable at the
salient angle. It would then pass, as shown, very near Ras al Kuh to
avoid crossing the deep water lying close off that point.
Nature of Bottom .—The bottom continues the same soft, green mud,
till 14 miles from the entrance of Ghubbet Gazireh, when it becomes
hard and somewhat uneven ; the water however is deep, and the tidal
current weak, so that I do not apprehend any bad effect. The cable
should make a course a little to the Southward of the straight line to
Ras al Kuh (on leaving the inlet) until past this hard ground. It would
pass up the centre of the inlet, where the depths decrease from 33 to
20 fathoms ; the bottom being soft green mud and very level, and be
landed at the small bay or bight shown on the separate plan of the inlet.
Size of Cable.' As none but the smallest boats (we saw none in either
inlet o^ei 5 tons burden) frequent this inlet, and as the landing plave
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The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.
Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1865.
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This volume contains a table of contents giving headings and page references, and two indexes. There is an index to Volumes I-XVII (1836-1864) in a separate volume (ST 393, index).
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- 'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1, 1a:1b, 2:16, 1:132, 1:18, 18a:18b, 19:206, 206a:206b, 207:256, 256a:256b, 257:340, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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