'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [54] (96/733)
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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54
PIIELEECHI.
They possess iifteen or sixteen Buggalows, that trade to Bussora and
from forty-five to fifty small boats, made from the date brlch
exe usive y or fishing. They appear poor and miserable, and state the
is an to e unhealthy, much subject to fevers, which carry off consi-
erable numbers of children. The town boasts of a few straggling date
tiees that yield little or no fruit, and outside are a few cultivated
pa c ICS, the soil a kind of loamy sand, similar to Karrack, in which
sionalir Th Tr'' me ! 0nS ' ^ a SmaI1 qUanti, > r of wheat occ ^
y- ese patches are irrigated from numerous wells of water
goo unng the rains, but at other times indifferent. The inhabitants
depend entirely on other places for supplies, but possess a few flocks.
I ^ r 0f , lhe iSlaad " Said Sad00 ' OT ,omb a
ook a theodolite with me on purpose to measure its height, but finding
so insignificant a spot, estimated it at thirty-five feet above high-
water mark.
I do not consider the place adapted for a coal depot except for small
lion steamers, drawing less than seven feet water when laden-
steamers of this description might frequent the western small Bunder,
and he within three hundred yards of the shore : they could be easily
aden by boats, as there is sufficient water close to the beach for boats
to land and embark cargo at any time of the tide.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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