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ON THE TIYDTIOG RAPIIY OE THE PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
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their whole extent. Mussulman prejudices are permitted to slumber, or are
altogether eradicated, and many are the instances which can now be enume
rated of acts of hospitality enhanced by the noble simplicity and patriarchal
habits of these people. The Nakhoodas of some of the Bagalows belonging
to the principal ports of the Gulf have the E. I. Company’s Chart on board,
and know its value, and to a certain extent its imperfections.
Commerce, the most powerful link to connect nations of widely different
character, is now carried on without hindrance, and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. is yearly
assuming a more important character with reference to European politics;
and I believe the Gulf is destined to become the highway from India to
London. _ .
With these considerations I have no hesitation in saying, that the existing
charts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , reflecting as they do great credit on those who
made them when the difficulties they had to overcome are taken into consi
deration, are nevertheless imperfect, incorrect, and insufficient for the re
quirements of the times.
During the years that I have devoted my attention to the hydrography of
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , I have lost no opportunity of procuring authentic informa
tion bearing on the errors and deficiencies of the charts ; and here I shall
enter upon a short general description of the Gulf, and then proceed to give a
detailed account of some of the important errors, &c., in the charts.
The method I have followed is to describe the errors and deficiencies in
succession, beginning at the entrance of the Gulf on the Persian side, and
following the coast round until W'e arrive at Maskat.
I must here premise that I have never been employed in the Gulf in a
surveying vessel. My knowledge has been acquired at various times and m
various ways. It has been with me a task of research, and I may add one of
pleasure carried on without any assistance during the few leisure hours an
officer finds in a cruiser; and latterly, when engaged surveying on the coast of
Western India, I have still continued to avail myself of the leisure time which
has fallen to me to continue these researches. Nothing but great persevei-
ance has enabled me to learn so much about that Sea, and by mdefafigab e
painstaking for many years, I have been enabled to detect, and to point
officially, a mass of inaccuracies. n i Arabs “ The
The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. is entered by a narrow strait called by the Ara .
Lion’s Mouth,” where from either side the opposite coast is visible. A tci
• tl,PSP the shores of Persia and Arabia receding, we find ouiselves
Ta grtat inland sea, up to the head of which the distance is 500 miles-ils