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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎406] (425/1050)

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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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406
BATINAH.
Place.
Position.
Houses and
inhabitants.
K emarks.
Maraghah *.
A mile or more inland
between Bu 'Abali
and Masna'ah.
60 huts of Yal Jarad.
Dates are grown:
there are about
1,000 palms.
Sha'ibah
2 miles east of
Masna'ah.
40 houses of Yal
Khamis and Nuwa-
m.
Grain is cultivated
and there are 3,000
date palms. Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Bani 'Auf reaches
the sea here.
Masna'ah
• • • •
See article Masna'ah.
Here Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Fara'
falls into the sea.
Tau-ash-Shawi ..
On the right bank of
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Fara', 3 miles
inland from Masna'
ah.
20 houses of Yal
Sa'ad.
Wheat and lucerne
are grown ; there are
50 cattle and 100
sheep and goats, also
about 400 date trees.
Tarif ..
On the left bank of
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Fara' oppo
site Tan-ash-Shawi,
but rather higher
up and clear of the
Masna'ah date
groves. i
60 houses of Yal
Sa'ad.
The inhabitants
subsist by their
dates and other cul
tivation ; there are
about 12,000 palms.
There are a few
sheep and cattle.
Muladdah
7 miles inland, south-
westwards of Mas
na'ah.
Town consisting of
a few mud houses
and some 400 huts.
The people are Yal
SaVd except a few
Baluchis.
There is a bazaar of
50 shops, and a large
fort belonging to the
Yal Sa'ad. The
place depends on its
extensive date plan
tations which are
divided only by a
narrow Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. from
those of Masna'ah
and contain about
5,000 palms.
Shirs
On the coast, divid
ed from Masna 'ah
only by the mouth
of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Fara'.
i ! J i
A large double vil
lage consisting of
two quarters; the
eastern contains S00
houses of the Hada-
dabah; the western,
separated from it by
a distinct interval,
is composed of 200
houses of the Yal
Braik.
The people live by
date cultivation
and fishing. There
are wells, but no
cultivation except
of dates. Palms are
about 3,000.

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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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