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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [56] (70/226)
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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56
CHAP. II. GEOGRAPHY QATAR.
Name.
Markhivah
Mashrab .
Marru'ah
Milaihat
Misaimir
Makainis
Murair (Qal'at)
4 miles north
west of Dohah
and 2 from the
east coast.
8 miJes south-
s o u t h-east of
Huwailah and
7 from the east
coast.
14 miles north
west of Dohah
and 10 from the
east coast.
A masonry well, 20 ft.
^ ee P> yields good water.
There is also soma culti
vation including dates;
it is enclosed by a wall,
and belongs to Jasim-
bin-Thani, the most influ
ential Shaikh in Qatar.
There are 9 unlined wells
of fairly good water;
they are 6 ft. deep.
A masonry well, 40 ft.
deep, which yields good
water. There are trees,
but cultivation is want
ing, notwithstanding the
name.
6 miles south-east Good water from well
of Huwailah depth 10 ft.
and 3 from the
1 east coast.
7 miles south of About 10 unlined wells
Dohah and 8 10 ft. deep, of good
from the oast water.
coast.
18 m " es r we8t b y A stage on the route from
south of Dohah. Hofuf to Dohah. Good
water is supplied by a
masonry lined w ell, 40 ft.
deep.
1^ miles south- A ruined and deserted
easu of
Zubarah
18th-century town located 105 km from Doha.
. fort. Inside the fort is
a well 12 ft. deep,
and outside it are 5 wells,
6 ft. deep; the water of
all is good.
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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
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- '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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence