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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [601] (645/733)
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.
601
last year was thirty-one thousand dollars. The duties are about five
per cent, on most articles imported or exported. The imports are arti
cles of Indian produce, dates, and grain. Supplies are procurable here.
The people are mostly Wahabees, and the Shaikh is of the Joasmee
Tribe, and nearly related to Sultan bin Suggur, the chief of the tribe,
and were always connected with the pirates. The anchorage, abreast
the town, in six fathoms, is well sheltered in a north-wester, but a chop-
ping sea comes in in a south-easter. There is a basin, dry inside at
low-water, where most of their boats lay up. They are not bigoted,
and the Shaikh appeared a very intelligent man. The place is much
increasing as a trading port.
K oong.
Koong is in lat. 26° 34' 40' / N., long. 55° 1' 80" E. It is now in
ruins, but was formerly a flourishing place. The Portuguese had a
factory
An East India Company trading post.
here when in power in the Gulf. Good water is easily procur
able. Here you lay near the shore in six fathoms.
B under M ullim.
Bunder Mullim is in lat. 26° SS' 20" N., long. 55° 9' 20'' E. It is a
small town, under Ras Showly, and has a trade in salt. It has about
three hundred inhabitants. The bank on the Persian side, forming
the channel into Bassadore, begins to shoal off this place.
L ittle T omb.
The centre of the Little Tomb is in lat. 26° 14' 50 v N., long. 55° 16'
E. It is moderately elevated, is about a mile and a half in length, and
has irregular
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
from twenty-eight to five fathoms. There is
no danger near it.
G reat T omb.
The north point of the Great Tomb is in lat. 26° 16' 2S ,/ N., long.
55° 24' E. The island is of an irregular triangle, the three sides being
about two and a half miles each. The island is well stocked with
antelopes, and there is good water on it. A
banian
Merchant of Indian extraction.
tree stands in about
the centre of the southern side. The anchorage is pretty good to the
south-east and west, but on the northern part a spit runs off about three
quarters of a mile, otherwise that part is steep. To the channel be
tween it and two and a half fathoms, on the Bassadore flat, is seven
and a quarter miles, but the safe channel is not more than six and a
half, as the bank shoals very suddenly at this part.
A S mall S hoal.
A small shoal patch, with six fathoms on it, bears nearly N. from
the Little Tomb, distant eleven miles, in lat. 26° 25' SO" lono- 55°
15' 40"E. ^
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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).
- 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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