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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [592] (636/733)
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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NAVIGATION OF THE
situated in a bay, affording excellent shelter in a north-wester, and
indifferently good in south-easters. It is inhabited by about three hun
dred and fifty Arabs of the Nussoor Tribe ; affords a few supplies, and
has excellent water. To the NVV. of the town are very extensive ruins,
said to have been a Portuguese town: if so, it must have been one of
importance, from the appearance of the ruins. In many parts the rock
has been excavated for residences in the hot season, and the pass in
the hills appears to have been fortified in a manner much beyond the
abilities of the natives, at least of the present day. Wells have been also
sunk to the depth of forty or fifty fathoms, through the rock. Very high
up on the hills reservoirs in ruins are very numerous. On the whole, it
has all the appearance of having been a large and flourishing town.
Several trading boats of various sizes belong to Taurie.
B arak.
Barak is a small town, situated about three miles to the SSE. of Tau
rie, and contains about two hundred inhabitants, of the Nussoor Tribe.
N akle T aky.
Naide Taky, in lat. 27° 29' 48 // N., long. 52° 32' 21" B., is a small
village, with a Ghuree, dependent on Aseeloo. It contains about seven
ty people, of the Nussoor Tribe.
A seeloo, or A ssaloo.
Aseeloo, in lat. 27° 27' 42 // N., long. 52° 33 / 45" E. r is one of the
principal towns on the coast. It is situated at the NW. entrance of
the Bay of Aseeloo ; is nearly a mile in length, and contains about
nine hundred men, of the A1 Aram and Bosamut Tribes;—the latter,
about four hundred in number, emigrated to this place from Bahrein about
three years back. They have a number of trading vessels, and take a
share in the pearl fishery. The only export is tobacco, brought down
from the interior. The town is fronted by a reef, about one thousand
yards off shore, within which is a basin with one and a half and two
fathoms water, where their boats lay. The anchorage before the town is
good in a south-easter, but a very heavy sea rolls in in a north-wester.
About two miles and a half up the bay from the town, with Aseeloo
Notch bearing N. 12° to N. 15° W., in three and a half or four fathoms,
you lie pretty well sheltered. Supplies of fresh provisions and water
are procmable. The ruins of a Portuguese town, w T ith two fortified hills
belonging to it, are situated near this town.
A seeloo or A ssaloo N otch.
Aseeloo Notch is a remarkable hill in the high land nearly over the
52^4^ Th '/ eXtreme point of the fall* is in lat. 27° 33' 6" N., long.
^ 30 E. This landmark is so well known to navigators as to
* Query f hill' ?
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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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