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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [12] (47/733)
The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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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sohar.
course of four miles, at length enters it, and forms the Point Kurnah.
The inland ridge, after shaping a vast and lofty amphitheatre, bedded
with sand, broken into rough stony ground near its base, presents a bold
and precipitous boundary to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
near Amsandam, This
plain is called Batinah, to distinguish it from Hajar, or the hilly country,
and is productive of dates, clover, maise, barley, the indigo plant,
and all the tropical fruits and vegetables ; much inferior, however in
flavour and quantity to those reared in Hajar ; the former is artificially
irrigated by numerous wells, while the cultivated tracts of the latter
abound in springs of water, and are intersected by rivulets. The
Native inhabitants of Batinah invariably present a countenance deeply
tinged with the yellow hue of disease, and a gaunt, meagre form.
Ethiopians and Hindoos, however, enjoy better health in this unfavour
able region.
To re-touch in detail the sketch of the tract of country we have just
examined, it remains to be observed, that from Muskat to Sir, with the
exception of the flat on which Mattrah is situated, the whole interven-
ing space is occupied by an unbroken mass of rocks far distant from
the sea. Thence, however, to Burka and Shinas, the country opens
into a semicircular plain, extending, in depth, for nearly two days'
journey, towards the foot of its stupendous boundary, and admitting
throughout of favourable cultivation. From Shinas to Khurfakhan, the
mountains encroach so considerably on the lowland as only to leave
occasional sandy hollows for the labours of the husbandman ; but
icnce to Ras-ool-Jabal the waves lash their base, and the enormous
mass, ascending perpendicularly above the ocean, admits of a shin
passing directly beneath its pinnacle.
Sohar, Shinas Castle, Khurfakhan, and Dabba.
To return to the point whence we digressed, we must remark Sohar
a town in lat. 24° 21' N., about twenty-two leagues NW by W from
Castle, in lat 24" 45' N T lemakable s P ot we reach is Shinas
direction To tVT ' ' ^ stant nearl y nine leagues in a NNW
35° 20' N ■ i succeeds the small cove of Khurfakhan, in lat
journey, aires" thT'cape! wMcttle'^ ^ 2
contributes to form the L'rrow entrtro^c P^Guif 6 ^ ^
The Oman.
r ul!d e by 0 thc an tw e o X t t rTb d es HTnavfanToh^^ t0 RaS - 0ol - Kh y ma . and is
fealty to the Chiefs of the house of Syu^, bei:^^^^^
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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