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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [76] (90/226)
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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76
chap. ii. geography oman.
The town is built at the head of Matrah Bay and
extends along the beach for about | mile and has an aver
age depth inland of J mile. It is protected on the land
ward side by a wall with fortified gateways, the principal
gate being the Bab-ul Kebir at the south-west corner of
the town. By this gate, the road leaves to the village of
Riwi whence routes branch to the Batinah coast and to
various parts of the interior. On the seaward side, at the
east end of the town, is a fort built on a rocky eminence.
It is a Portuguese construction of the same type and value
as the forts of Muscat. As around Muscat, blockhouses
command the approaches of the town from the landward
side.
The houses of Matrah are meaner than those of Muscat.
The suburbs also are more squalid.
Water of indifferent quality is obtained from wells
around the town. The Bay of Matrah is less remarkable
in appearance than the Bay of Muscat and is more easily
entered. Though open to the north-east it is sheltered
from the north-west and is preferred as a harbour by
native craft.
It has anchorage for steamers. The town is governed
by a Wali on behalf of the Sultan.
(d) Western 11 ajar. —The mountainous district of
Western Hajar extends from
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-ul-Kor on the north
west to
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Semail on the south-east, having a length of
about 160 miles.
The watershed of the range is roughly parallel to the
coast and runs at an average distance of 40 miles inland.
Its boundary on the seaward side is the line of its foothills
rising from the plain of the Batinah. The boundary with
the district of Dhahirah is indefinite.
The mountain system rises to its highest in the mass
of Jebel Akhdar at its south-east end which has an eleva
tion of nearly 10,000 feet.
There are no large towns in Western Hajar and the
small towns and villages are, with one or two minor excep
tions, on the seaward side of the range.
The most important valley in this district is the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fara,
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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)
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There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.
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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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- 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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