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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1219] (268/688)
The record is made up of 1 volume (341 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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(Crr
MIJAN
1219
Name.
Ba'ajah
Bat-hah
Ghadaiyar-al-Lal
by tie Sails
therttisi
wieiit
Ghuwaifat
Manaif ..
Mirjrin ('Aqalat)
Minba'i
Sila
Sila' (Dohat-as)
Position.
3 miles inland,
westwards, from
Dohat-as-Sila' on
the coast.
About 15 miles
south-west by
south of Sila.'
20 or 25 miles south
of Sila'. (One
authority would
make it nearly
30 miles west of
Sila'.)
Near the coast, 10
miles north of
Sila'.
About 15 miles
south-east of 'Aqalat
Mijrin.
35 or 40 miles south
west of D5hat-as-
Sila'.
About 8 miles west
of Sila',
About 5 miles inland,
south-westwards,
from Dohat-as-Sila'.
The chief indenta
tion in the coast of
Mijan, which it di
vides from Sabak-
hat Matti to the
eastward ; it is
about 46 miles
south-east by south
of the entrance of
Khor-al-'Odaid.
Nature.
A spring or over
flowing well.
A well
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
A spring or over
flowing well.
A well
A bay
Remarks.
It is 3 feet deep
and is surrounded
by a bed of green
grass.
The water is of in
different quality.
The best well in
Mijan : the water is
sweet and sometimes
overflows after rain,
but at times it falls
to 1 or 2 fathoms
below the surface.
It is situated in an
earthy plain with
some scanty scrub.
Travellers between
'Oman and Qatar
often halt here.
The water is indiffer
ent in quality.
The water is bad.
The water is good
and almost at the
ground level.
It resembles Ba'ajah;
but is surrounded
by shallow pits
which also yield
water.
The water is brackish,
but is drunk in
emergency. The
well is under the
east face of a stony
ridge.
The country in the
neighbourhood is
desert decending in
terraces to the sea.
7b2
'' '
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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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- 1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system 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.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 975:1092, 1092a:1092f, 1093:1110, 1110a:1110f, 1111:1328, 1328a:1328f, 1329:1386, 1386a:1386f, 1387:1446, 1446a:1446f, 1447:1448, 1448a:1448f, 1449:1542, 1542a:1542f, 1543:1600, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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