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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎382] (401/1050)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (523 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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§ 82 BARAIMI
The following is a table, alphabetically arranged, of the villages of the Baraimi Oasis
Name.
Position.
Nature.
R emarks.
^Ain Dhawahir .,
About 3 miles south
of Baraimi Village.
A village of 280 hou*
ses of Dhawahir of
the Jawabir sec
tion.
Sometimes merely
called 'Ain. The
lands are watered by
2 Falajs, one of
which come sfrom
the east and the
other (called Dawu-
di) from Jabal Hafit.
Date palms are esti
mated at 20,000, and
livestock are said to
be 40 horses, 150
camels, 100 donkeys,
100 cattle and 1,000
sheep and goats.
Baraimi Village ..
1J miles east-south-
east of Jimi, of
which the position
has been astrono
mically determined.
See article Baraimi
Village.
Ulli • • • •
2 miles north-north
east of Baraimi
Village
A village of 80 houses
of Dhawahir of the
Daramikah section.
Irrigation is by a
Falaj coming from
the hills to the north
east. Resources are
2,000 date palms, 40
camels, 20 donkeys,
20 cattle and 60
sheep and goats ;
there are no horses.
Oahali ..
4 miles south-west of
Baraimi Village,
A date plantation
with a few huts of
care-takers.
The place belonged
originally to the
Dhawahir, but it is
now owned by the
Shaikh of Abu Dhabi
who reclaimed it
about ten years ago.
Jimi • •
Situated, according
to careful observa
tions by circum-me-
ridional altitudes of
the sun, in latitude
24° 16' ICT north
and longitude 55°
42' SCT east, Madras
observatory being
80° 14' 5V east of
Greenwich. It
is nearly in the cen
tre of the oasis.
A village of 200 hous
es of Dhawahir of
the Baiii Sa'ad sec
tion.
The water-supply ia
from the east. Date
trees are estimated
at 6,000 and live
stock at 6 horses, 60
camels, 40 donkeys,
40 cattle and 100
sheep and goats.
W

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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.

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 (523 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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