'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎620] (664/733)

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is an inner cove, two miles deep, and about six round, the sounding
on hard bottom, being thirty-three to ten fathoms, the latter close to the
inner shore of the small cove. The whole cove is three and a half
miles deep, and about sixteen round. There are in it two or three
smaller coves, one of which, at the bottom, half a mile deep, has nine
fathoms in it ; the soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. are all over rocky bottom, and are from
eighteen to thirty-six fathoms. There is a small village with a few
huts here.
H as D allaa.
Ras Dallaa is a long, narrow ridge, forming a craggy point, and being
the south point of Dooat Rathrat, and the northern point of Dooat
Guzzerat. ^ It is in lat. 26° 7' 38" N., long. 56° 33' 20" E. The sound-
ings aie thirty^two fathoms close to the point.
D ooat G uzzerat, or M alcolm's I nlet.
Dooat Guzzerat, or Malcolm's Inlet, is the most extensive of all the
estuaries on this side the mountains. It is more than nine miles deep:
at the entrance it is two miles wide, increasing to three and'a quarter
within. In other places it has several coves and bays : two of these
are about three miles deep, and form the inner part of the inlet into two
branches. The whole is about forty-three miles round. In the body
this inlet the soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. are thirty-three to twenty-four fathoms in
t ic coves, and near the shores twenty-six to eighteen and ten fathoms j
anc at the bottom of one cove, close in, are seven fathoms. The whole
roc vs aie high, and in many parts difficult to get up. There are
two small villages in the north-western branch, the bottom of which is
separated from Elphinstone Inlet, within the Gulf, by a ridge a mile
a quaitcr at the base, but not more than one hundred yards at the
op ; s oping down on both sides. It is also separated from Dooat
ti - i a a 1 ^ C ^ 0 Wa ^ ffom four hundred to about eighty yards
1 1 nS P ace we ^ lst heard the people call from one side to the
in a veiy s nill voice, and which we were informed they could so
mot u ate as to be heard some miles among the hills. The bottom, like
J a f 1 .. the 0ther coves ' is h ard sand and rock. There is at the
bottom of this cove a remarkable hill, usually called Fillam Peak.
H as S erkan.
and a boM rk h " l 3 , in I 1 "'; 26 ° ^ 24 " N - Ion g- 560 32 ' 35 " E - I' a
There a^e , h , """"S the S0U,hera P™' D ^t Guzzcrat.
Itoe are thirty and thirty-four fathoms close to it.
„ D ooat K ubbal.
Has Seenmc'd' 1 ^h" 1 ' 0f DOOat KubbaI is a miI e and a quarter NNE. off
fathoms. The "T 8 " 6 P . 0int ' and there are close to it twenty
e i» t iiee and a half miles deep, and has soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. of