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connection betweexi thorn and Bahrain. Nevertheless,
they are quite clearly a part of the -lawar structure,
and should toe considered to form part of the ’group*.
(to) No. 14, Ajeira t is an escarpment sittiated •
some 2 miles to the north of If a war and is the counter*
part of j&n&n in the south* it commands the entrance
to the H&vmr anchorage. There is deep water bo tween
it and Fa,war and also between it and Qatar, but it does
not lie in the territorial waters of the latter. It
appears to be the northern limit of the . : ,owacI r*®f
of which jagged rocks appear at certain tides. There
is no evidence that I know of, other than the building
of a cairn by Bahrain, to give an indication of owner*
ship and x m in some doubt if it really beongs to the
group. Nevertheless 1 know of no good purpose to be
served in separating it, arid I think it should be included.
(c) Nos. 10, 12 and 13 can be considered
sub-group *y» composed of small barren islands, islets
and roomy protuberances situated off the eastern shore
of iiawar. They lie tucked within the natural barrier
formed by sub-group *z*. see (d) below, and such is
their position that without Hawar'they can scarcely
be said to have any significance at all. Without doubt
they must be considered part of the * group 1 .
(d) Bub-group * z' is comprised of the mawads,
the akara, the Bu ha*&€ia and Bu dadad. At one time,
Hawar Island was probably part of Qatar and has been
separated by the flow of the tide In the course of the
ages leaving sub-group * z * in the channel between the
two. The natural barrier they form and their connection
with awar are not so obvious from the map, but on the
spot this is most striking. Baw&d ahamaliyah (No.11)
is a broad pancake of an island protruding some 6 feet
above high tide, and is separated from Hawar by a narrow
sea channel approximately 2 fathoms in depth. It is,
however,.about 3 miles from vatar. This channel shelves
to less than a fathom at its "south end and stays approxi
mately at that depth as far south as the irawar-janan
channel. (There are deeper patches of course). The
nuk&ra arc but mushroom-capped cliffs protruding fro©
this shallow sea-bed in the gap toetween the two Sawads*
b&w&d j&nubiy&h is another pancake island sloping
gradually into the sea at its southern end, then to the
south, after a stretch of very shallow sea, the Bu badad
rises from the flats.
(e) Bu sadad, as the name in Arabic suggests,
could fairly be described as a causeway. The sea here
is vary shallow, and is dotted with innumerable rocks
in such profusion as almost to out-number the cormorants,
and to permit of stepping from one to another and arriving
dry footed on Qatar. There is, however, a gap of shallow
sea of some 50 yards in breadth about the middle of this
causeway.
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