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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [196v] (397/1278)
The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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BUS—BOS
BUSA, see SHlBKtJH PORTS.
BUSAIF PLAIN—
A triangular plain of the Dashti district of Pars, enclosed between the
southern and eastern arms of the range which is dominated by Kfih-i-
Darang, and the main maritime range of Pars. It has no open exit except
at its south-east corner on the coast between Daiyir and Kangan. (Persian
Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
BU-SAIF—Lat. 30° 4' N. ; Long. 48° 55' E. ; Elev.
The south-east point of a low swampy tract, about 15 miles in breadth,
between Khur Musa, coast of Khuzistan, and Khur Bahmanshir. (Constable
— Stiffe—Persian Gulf Pilot.)
Bt SHANAK— Lat. 30° 19' N. ; Long. 48° 25' E.
A village on the left bank of the Bahmanshir opposite’Abbadan island.
It consists of 20 houses of Ka’b of the Dris division.—(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
BUSHIRE PENINSULA—
For History see under Bushire (Town).
Geography and Climate.— A torpedo-shaped promontory lying parallel
to the coast of the Persian district of Tangistan at a distance of 4 or o
miles ; the intervening space is occupied by a grass and reed grown swamp
or mashileh, across which runs a caravan route to the mainland.
Extent. —The peninsula measures exactly 12 miles from its north-west
tip, on which stands Bushire town, to Ras Hallleh at the opposite end. The
maximum breadth at about midway is about 3| miles. The peninsula is
bounded by the sea on north, west and south ; on the east it is bounded by
the mashileh.
Physical features and vegetation. —The site of Bushire town is rocky and
slightly elevated above the sea, but immediately south of it a strip of very
low ground runs across the peninsula from coast to coast ; beyond this low
strip the ground begins to rise again, and the remainder of the peninsula is
a sort of turtle back, attaining a maximum elevation of 150 feet in the centre
at Imamzadeh village. There is a stretch of low cliff along the coast at the
south-west corner of Bushire town and again in the neighbourhood of
Rishahr. The low parts of the peninsula are sandy, the higher of firm,
arable soil.
Here and there a little grass is to be found. An occasional her and
tamarisk are the only natural growing trees ; but the babul and cypress
are found ; also a tree with yellow flowers.
Climate. —The hottest month in Bushire is August and the coldest months
are January and February ; in summer the thermometer has been known
to rise to 115.5 degrees F. The worst period is between the 20 th of July
and the 15th of September, when the temperature seldom rises above 100,
but the difference between the wet and the dry bulb readings is sometimes
only 2 degrees.
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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 636), showing the whole of Persia with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
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- 1 volume (635 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 637; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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