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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [593] (637/733)
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.
593
require no further description. A pass into the interior winds round
near it.
A seeloo, or N abend B ay.
Aseeloo, or Nabend Bay, is formed by Nakle Taky and Aseeloo on
one side, and Cape Nabend on the other. It is five miles wide, and
rather more in depth. Several villages are situated round it. The
depth of water is from eleven to two and a half fathoms. Tn the middle
is a rocky bank, with three and a half fathoms least water on it. In
towards the bank, that runs off the shore all round to the distance of
one thousand yards, the ground is generally clay or mud, but in the
middle of the bay hard sand, with patches of rock. There is no danger
whatever within it, or at the entrance. The shore abreast of Nakle
Taky and Aseeloo should not be approached under seven fathoms.
After the Notch bears N., you may keep in any depth to three and a
half fathoms, and with the Notch from N. 10° to N. 15° W. is the best
anchorage for a ship in a north-wester, from three to four fathoms, mud.
In a south-easter you are sheltered in all parts of the bay.
N akle H aghel.
Nakle Haghel is a small village, with a tower, in lat. 27° 23' 18" N,,
long. 52° 43' 15" E. It is subject to the Shaikh of Congoon, and
contains one hundred and fifty of the Beni Malah Tribe. Several small
villages within this, and a short distance from the shores of the bay, are
subject to Congoon, and contain altogether about nine hundred or one
thousand men, of the Beni Mullak and Beni Tamine Tribes.
N abend T own.
Nabend Town is situated on the southern side of the bay, in lat. 27° 23'
27" N., long. 52° 41' SO 7 E. It is a small town, dependent on Aseeloo,
and contains about two hundred and forty men, of the A1 Aram and
A1 Bakahf Tribes. It has a few small trading boats; cattle, poultry,
and good water are procurable.
R uffar V illage.
Ruffar village is situated on the south side of the bay, near Cape
Nabend, in lat. 27° 33' 36" N., long. 52° 40' 45" E, and contains about
sixty men, of the Al Aram Tribe.
R as N abend, or C ape N abon.
Ras Nabend or Cape Nabon, in lat. 27° 22' 52" N., long. 52° 39' 39"
E., is a bold, projecting point, and forms the southern point of the bay.
The rocky bank does not extend more than eight hundred yards off it,'
and even on that there is from three to two fathoms, close to the cape
A ship running into the bay should round it in about seven fathoms in
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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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