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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [624] (668/733)
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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G24
NAVIGATION OF THE
all winds, half a mile deep, with two and three fathoms water in it
This place has about four hundred inhabitants. It has a few trading
boats. About fifty of the inhabitants are Banians. It belongs to the
Imaum of Muskat, whose nominal revenue from it is about three
thousand German crowns. Excellent water, and pretty good supplies
of cattle and poultry, are to be had here ; also excellent fish. Has
Khore Fukaun is a rocky point, rather high, one mile north-east of the
town, and forms the extreme of the bay. Between Has Khore Fukaun
and Fedjeerah are three villages, Sunmeum being the one nearest that
place. The whole coast is abundantly planted with date groves,
and the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
off it regular to five fathoms, half or three quarters of
a mile off shore.
F edjeerah.
Fedjeerah is a small fort and village, in lat. 25° 7' 30" N., long.
06 23 /, 40' E. It has about one hundred and fifty inhabitants, mostly
fishermen and cultivators.
JR hudal K ulba.
Rhudal Kulba is a fort and village, in lat. 25° 4' 20" N., long. 56° 24'
26 E. It has about one hundred inhabitants, who are fishermen and
cultivators. A few supplies may be obtained at all these places.
K hore K ulba, and F ort.
Khore Kulba Fort is a fort on the side of a creek, into which
oats of twenty or thirty tons can go. It has some trade, particularly
^ ' n ^ au ^ tiibes, about two hundred inhabitants, and is in lat.
o 0 oO N., long., 06° 24 / 26" E. Supplies of cattle and poultry may
3c o tained heie. Off these last three places, the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
are regular
o ^ our athoms, thiee quarters of a mile off shore. Between this and
unas are successively situated the forts and villages of Maharae,
rawain, Aboobugarrah, and Huggur. At each of these places the
num or o the inhabitants varies from seventy to one hundred, some
P () y cc in the coasting trade, others as fishermen and cultivators.
A Jew supplies may be obtained at all these places.
S hinas.
■ f'™ 8 is ^ for, and i" lat. 24° 44' 41" N., long. 56° 33' 18' E. It
njen f 11 ^ 110 a " na ^ s expedition 1809 as the place where many
whole "f rV e r my beins "^"valued. This plaee, as also the
nomiml ^ aUn . Coast ' belongs to the Imaum of Muskat. His
and suunl^ eVenUe ^ ab0,lt three lhousa nd German crowns. Water
trade has a ^ ^^ here - The P lace has a g-d deal of coasting
hundred inhabitants 0 T 1 l' 0atS belon ® in S : ,0 an d contains about five
and the nnnh ■ ■' he coulltr y ^ pretty well cultivated near it,
& c is good in six fathoms, clay bottom. From Shinas
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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.
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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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- '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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