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'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939' [‎141v] (282/328)

The record is made up of 1 volume (157 folios and 7 maps in pocket). It was created in 1940. 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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240
Miles.
Inter- Total,
mediate.
45
33
45
78
Detailed Report.
HAIL, (he largest settlement between
SOUAK and BARAIMI.
Track then turns north to NEJD, the
pass on the HAJAR divide, and des
cends to the JAV Plain.
BARAIMl (see Route 10).
(For continuation of this route to ABU
DHABI sec Route No. 10. )
ROUTE No. 17.
MUSCAT to MURAIR via SIB, SOHAR and SHINAS.
Distance :—194 miles. Stages 11.
1. General Report. —The route is fit for cars, light
M. T. and field guns. It was originally a camel track
but in 1932 work on it was completed. The work done
being a widening of the path through scrubs among the
palms, and building a stony track over soft sand. It is
now used regularly by light cars, and in the winter of
1938 an exploration party of the oil company in cars
and light lorries returned from Baraimi to Muscat via
Sohar. Lhe journey in a ear from Muscat to Sohar
takes approximately 8^ hours.
Alter getting clear of the hills around Muscat and
Matrah, where the track rises and falls very steeply, and
getting clear ol the sandhills between the wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Boshar
and the sea coast, the track runs through a tract of land
known as Al Batinah for the remainder of the route.
The whole of the Al Batinah is low lying plain, sandy
towards the sea, clayey in the interior, and stony as the
mils are^ approached. It is celebrated principally for its
tes which are grown in an enormous palm belt that
lun.-i parallel to the sea along the whole extent of its
coastlme. The route runs through the middle of this
jelt, and rarely does it leave the shelter of its palms.

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This volume contains geographical information and maps about the Arabian States of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . It was produced by the General Staff, India, and printed by the Manager, Government of India Press, Simla, 1940.

The volume is divided into two sections: 'Military Report' including general descriptions of Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Muscat and Oman (folios 6-127) and 'Routes' (folios 128-164) including maps of:

and sketches of:

  • Bahrein Oil Company's area and important places (f 163);
  • Sharjah and Dibai [Dubai] (f 158).
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1 volume (157 folios and 7 maps in pocket)
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There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last of several maps which are stored in a pocket at the back of the volume, on number 164.

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