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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [589] (633/733)
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.
five and a half fathoms. A course now S.byE. will take you fairly
down to the line of ten fathoms on the Burdistan Bank, which should
be crossed in this depth.
If a beating wind, you should not stand off'into more than twenty-
eight fathoms, and inshore at night into less than eight fathoms, unless
above the Asses Ears, in which case you may stand into five or six
fathoms; in the day-time, you may approach the shore to four fathoms,
being to the southward of the Asses Ears. Twenty-eight fathoms off
shore, to five or six fathoms inshore in the day-time, and seven or eight
fathoms in the night, will be safe working, until you reach Yabreen
Island.
J ezeerat M ulgassab.
Jezeerat Mulgassab is a low, narrow island, about five and a half
miles long, extending from Yabreen Island, in lat. 27° 50' SO" N., long.
51° 32 A E. Within is a narrow channel with twelve or fourteen fathoms,
but blocked up at each end. You may approach this island to five
fathoms in the day, and seven in the night.
M onakeela, or M ongeller.
Monakeela, or Mongeller, is a low, sandy island, joined on to
Mulgassab by a reef nearly dry at low-water. It has date trees on it,
and the ruins of an old building, and is in lat. 27° 49' 15" N., long. 51°
SS' 10 // E,; variation 3° 40 A W. in 1827. High-water full and change
7h. 50m.; rise and fall seven feet. It may be seen about eight or
nine miles from the deck of a ship of four hundred tons.
H as M oosalyee,
Has Moosalyee is a low point within the reefs on the main, in lat.
27° 53' 20" N., long. 51° 32' SO 7 E. About a mile and a half to the
eastward is a small sandy island of the same name.
M ulgurram.
Mulgurram is a low point of the main, in lat. 27° 50 r 30' / N., long.
51° 38' E. South-west a mile and a half is Jezeerat Mulgurram, a
small woody island. There is a gut between it and the point, with ten
fathoms in it, and there is a fathom and a half at low-water on the bank
without it. In this gut the Congoon boats are laid up when dismasted
for the season.
G ebil B ering, or H ummocks of K enn.
Gebil Dering, or the Hummocks of Kenn, form a well known land
mark, in lat. 28° 3' 55 // N., long. 51° 47' 27" E. (the centre hummock).
When the centre hummjock bears N. 26° W. true, you are clear of the
reef or foul ground, and may stand in on that line to five fathoms.
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- Content
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).
- Extent and format
- 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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