'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [575] (619/733)
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GULF OF PERSIA.
575
G uttar.
Guttar is a small, rocky, and dangerous shoal, nearly dry, in the
fair-way, not more than half a mile over, and in the stream of fifteen
fathoms. It is in lat. 28° 59' 20" N., long. 48° 11' 5" E.
S habee.
Shabee is a small ruined fort, in lat. 29° 2' 50" N., long. 48° 5' 57"
E. There are some wells of good water near this place. From Aboo
Fatiera to this place the coast is safe to approach to a quarter of a mile.
A l F ahil.
A1 Fahil is a small village, situated in a grove of date trees, in lat.
29° 7' 53" N., long. 48° 5' 4" E.
F untash.
Funtash is also a small village, in lat. 29° 9' SS'' N., long. 48° 5' IS^E.
A boo F atiera.
Aboo Fatiera is a small village, in lat. 29° 21' 15" N., long 48° 4' 28" E.
Remarks. —Leaving Grane, and bound down the Arabian Coast to
the southward, the first place you come to is Ras-ool-Lur, or Ras-ool-
Lund. It is in lat. 29° 21 / 15" N., long. 48° 4' 40" E., and forms the
southern point of Grane Haven. The water is deep near it, and you may
round it at a distance of a quarter of a mile. The point is low and sandy.
From this to Aboo Fatiera, a small village, the coast is little elevated,
and safe to approach to a few hundred yards, there being seven fathoms
close to the beach.
G rane T own.
Grane Town (or Koweit), called by the Natives Al Quaat, is in
lat. 29° 22' 52 // N., long. 47° 40' 40'' E., or 25° 15' 20" W. of Bombay,
or 7° 39' 20" W. of Bassadore Point, in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, It is a
place of much importance, owing to the maritime spirit of its inhabit
ants. It has a considerable trade of its own, supplying most of the
inland tribes with grain, coffee, and Indian produce. They are also the
carriers for Bussora, and many other parts of the Gulf.
There are belonging to the port fifteen large Buggalows and Dows,
from four hundred and fifty to one hundred tons ; twenty Buteels and
Buggalows, from one hundred and twenty to fifty tons ; and about one
hundred and fifty trading boats, from one hundred and fifty to fifteen
tons. They navigate the Gulf of Persia, Red Sea, Coasts of Sind,
Guzerat, and Malabar, and to Bombay,
Their imports consist of several articles of Indian produce, such as
piece goods, rice, sugar, timber, spices, and cotton from India; coffee
from the Red Sea | tobacco and dried fruits from Persia 5 grain and
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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)
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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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