'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [619] (663/733)
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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R as G oberhindee, S outh P oint.
Has Goberhindee, S.outh Point, is in lat. 26° IS' 30" N., long. 56°
35' E. It is a high blufF, forming the northern point of Dooat Shesah.
It has seventeen fathoms water four yards off its base. The Persian
Coast is nearer this point than anywhere else in the Gulf, being twenty-
seven miles across.
D ooat S hesah.
Dooat Shesah is the first inlet to the southward of Cape Musseldora,
is near seven miles deep, and about twenty-two or twenty-three round.
It has seven small coves within it, varying in depth from half a mile to a
mile and a half. There is a small village with a few huts at the bottom of
the inlet. The
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
over the inlet are thirty-four to forty fathoms.
In some of the small coves it is the same, and in two of them there are
ten and sixteen fathoms close to the shore, the bottom hard sand and
rock. On the north-west side of the inlet there are two or three small
rocky islets. The bottom of this inlet is separated from Colville's
Cove by a ridge of about two-thirds of a mile, and from the bottom of
Elphinstone Inlet by a ridge not more than two hundred yards at the
base, and about three hundred feet high. The natives have a sheep
track over.
H as K asah.
Ras Kasah is a projecting rocky point, forming the southern point of
Dooat Shesah. It is rugged, and has twenty-six fathoms water close
to it; about a mile off there are sixty fathoms. It is in lat. 26° 14/ 20"
N., long. 56° 33^ E.
O mal P heerrim, commonly called F illam R ock.
Omal Pheerrim, commonly called Fillam Rock, is a rocky islet, high
in the centre, in lat. 26° 10' 12" N., long. 56° 36' 30" E. It is three
and a quarter miles off Ras Bashine, the nearest shore. The
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
between them are thirty-two fathoms near the cape, fifty in mid-channel,
and thirty-eight near the rock outside. The
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
are thirty-four
close to the rock, and sixty to seventy fathoms one and two miles off.
R as B ashine.
Ras Bashine is a projecting rocky point, forming the northern point
of Dooat Rathrat, or Bradford's Cove. It is in lat. 26° 10' 40" N.,
long. 56° 38" E. It is steep, with
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
a few yards off of twenty
to thirty fathoms.
D ooat R athrat, or B radford's C ove.
Dooat Rathrat, or Bradford's Cove, is an inlet something similar
to those before described. Round a rocky point, on its north-west side
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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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