'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From December 1854 to March 1856. (New Issue.) Edited by the Secretary. Volume XII.' [‎105] (214/258)

ON THE HYDROGRAPHY OF THE PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
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There is no English marine survey of the Islands Karrack* and Korgo.
Dalrymple published a plan of them from a French j\IS. 3 dated 1787. There
is a trigonometrical survey of the Island, which was made by Ensign W.
Anderson,f B. E. Regiment, in 1839, on the scale of 6| inches to a mile.
It seems to be all that one could desire as a land survey, for on it every nulla,
and even the great fissures in the rocks, may be traced. Korgo lies about
two miles north of Karrack. It is a low sandy Island, very dangerous to
approach, being surrounded by reefs extending to a great distance, on which
the E. I. C. Brig of war “ Euphrates” w r as very nearly lost in 1849, but,
after being on the rocks for five days, was fortunately got afloat again.
The E. I. C. Steamer “ Hugh Lindsay” ran on the reef of Korgo, and
several vessels having got close to these reefs, without being awaie of theii
existence, have narrowly escaped a similar misfortune.
On the general chart, Karrack Island (Fort) is placed in Latitude 29° 15'
45" N., Longitude 50° 18' 20" E. On the separate chart, entitled “ Part of
the Coast of Persia, fromRas Tuloopto Bushire, by Brucks and Cogan, 1826,”
it is in Latitude, 29° 17' 37" N., and Longitude 50° 21' 00" E. The for
mer is the correct Latitude.
We have no chart of the River (the Shat el Arab) from the sea to Basra.
For this navigation we are entirely dependant on the Arab pilots, who reside
on Karrack, and are subject to Persia-
At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (in 1851) Sir R. Murchi
son observed, with reference to the rapid increase of the delta of the Mesopo
tamian rivers, “that this phenomenon was attributable to the immense volume
of mud and sand carried down by the Euphrates and its associated streams
being deposited in so land locked a body of water as the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , in
which, aided by the inset A small map or other image enclosed within the margin of a larger map, map sheet, or larger image; or papers placed inside a book or archival volume. of the tide, the sediment is poured back, instead of
being swept out by a boisterous open sea.” With reference to this opinion
I would remark, that from these causes the alterations in the bed of the sea
will, in all probability, be found of corresponding magnitude to those observed
in the delta, and that there must be generally, throughout the upper part of
the Gulf, shoaler water, and more banks and shoals than existed when that
part was surveyed in 1828.
Koyt (called Grane on the chart) is a town carrying on a very large trade.
There is a shoal in the fair track to it, just to the northward of Khubbah
island, not marked on the chart. The E. I. C. Schooner “Constance,
Lieutenant Sedly, anchored upon it in July 1855.
In the unsurveyed portion, between Biddulph’s Islands and the land, Lieu .
Fullerton passed within a hundred yards of two reefs no t on the chart. He
* Properly Kharig or Kharij.
t This officer together with Vans Agnew was murdered at the instigation of Dewan
Moolruj at Mooltaii, in Apnl ISIS.