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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [23] (37/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (112 folios). It was created in 1933. 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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miles o. o.
Kuwait.
Adjoins it about
2f> xriiie.» sou.t>fa. t*y
«.* XC*xw»it>-
100 wells,
T 8 ft-, good
flote pulrriH.
sUe Pherd«
On Southern
Frontier Line.
Shi'aibah
Subaihiyah
Tawil
Warah
Qrain
On coast 26 miles
S. S. E. of Kuwait.
33 miles south of
Kuwait and 20 miles
from coast.
25 miles S. W. of
Kuwait and 7 miles
east of Warah.
8 miles north of Bur-
qan.
42 miles South of
Kuwait.
10 wells with
water at 16 ft*
About 100 wells.
Scattered over a
plain I mils square.
Water at 6 ft., depth
of water 12 ft., some
wells are brackish ;
others sweet.
20 wells sweet water.
About 100 wells. :
good water at 18 ft.
12 wells; good sweet
w ater at 10 feet.
A small hamlet of
thfe Qusur with a
few permanent
houses. A large
ruined fort to the
west belonging to
Sheikh of Kuwait.
A large and favourite
camping ground,
suitable for a
brigade of all
arms; good land
ing ground.
P o p u 1 ar among
Bedowins.
1 mile to west is
a dark coloured
hill 200 ft. high,
resembling a tower
in shape.
Good landing ground,
a prominent
conical hill, 350
feet high, 1 mile
to north of wells.
TO
W
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The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volume in the spelling 'Bahrein'.
The volume contains information in separate sections for each of the places listed in the title under the following chapter headings:
- I Historical (ff 8-14);
- II Geography, Climate, Health (ff 15-54);
- III Population (ff 54-67);
- IV Water Supply; Resources (ff 68-70);
- V Armed Forces (ff 70-75);
- VI Aviation (ff 75-78);
- VII Political (ff 79-81);
- VIII Inter-Communication [wireless and telegraph] (ff 81-82);
- IX Communications [land routes] (ff 83-98).
There are three appendices, which follow the same format:
- I Currency, Weights and Measures (f 99-102);
- II Landing Facilities - Maritime (ff 103-106);
- III List of Maps (f 106).
The volume includes five maps of the region (ff 109-113).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (112 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 113 on the last of the five maps inserted in a pocket attached to the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. All five maps (ff 109, 110, 111, 112, 113) need to folded out to be examined. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages in the volume.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-198 appears between ff 8-106.
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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/141
- Title
- 'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:iii-r, ii-v, iv-r:iv-v, 1:4, 1:208, v-r:v-v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence