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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [553] (597/733)
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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GULF OF PERSIA.
553
A rzenia I sland.
J he south point of Arzenia Island is in lat. 24° 46'20 // N lono-
52° 42'25'' E. It is moderately elevated, and about six and a half miles
in circumference. The south point, like most of the other islands, is low,
and she tered from the prevailing winds. Good anchorage is found
ieie under the island. It has no water.
A rzenia.
Arzenia Three Fathoms Bank. The centre of it bears true N | E
distant three miles from the body of the island, and is long and broad.'
t ias not less than three fathoms, over a coral bottom, but the depth, from
naUve accounts, appears to be decreasing.
Arzenia Two Fathoms Bank bears E., distant a mile and a half from
the island ; is very small; least water two fathoms.
Arzenia One and a half Fathom Bank bears nearly SE., distant two
and a quarter miles, and has only a fathom and a quarter or a fathom
and a hall on one part; it is very small.
S eer B eniyas I sland.
The entrance to the cove is in lat. 24° 15" 10" N., long. 52° 46' 50 //
^ • This island is rather high, having apeak in the centre ; is seventeen
mi es in circumference, and appears of volcanic origin. On the southern
si e is a small cove, with five fathoms water in it, and three fathoms at
the entrance. In rounding this island, to go to the cove, which you
should do on the eastern side, pass the southern side of the small sandy
island of Rusheed at a distance of three quarters of a mile, and run round
not coming nearer Seer Beniyas than two and a quarter miles, or seven'
athoms, until you near the small dry sandbank, or get the peak to bear
about W by S, when haul in towards the island, keeping along at about
one mile distant, until you get close to the south point, which haul round
about a quarter of a mile distant, and anchor under the island in five
or six fathoms offshore, from two cable-lengths to a quarter of a mile
W are well sheltered here from all winds. In rounding the island"
the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
m some places are irregular. You may run down to the'
SSE. of this island in
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
from fourteen to four fathoms, look
ing sharp out for a small dry sandbank in the fair-way ; but there is no
outlet, and is only mentioned in case of being in chase. Between Seer
Beniyas and the main are two reefs, with a channel nearly a mile wide
between them, having three fathoms at low-water in it ; but the tides
run in it with such rapidity, and the set is so irregular, that it is unsafe
to navigate.
Z aboot.
Zaboot is an island to the south-west of Seer Beniyas. Its south end
is in lat. 24° 5' 20" N., and long. 52° 37' E. It has a rock off the
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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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