'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎113] (278/524)

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\ RT VI -Recent Tour round the Northern portion of the Persian
G »//-By Lieut. Col. Lewis Felly. Presented by Government.
[Read before the Society, September 17th, 1863].
I moved in the Mail Steamer for Busreh, and there landing, proceeded
through Zobeir in a Southerly direction
As proposed in my letter No. across the desert and reached the sea-
2, Secret Department, of 24th ^ g outh . east an gl e 0 f the Bay
February 1803.
of Koweit.
2. I passed three days under the hospitable roof of the Chief of
Koweit, who received me suitably.
3. From Koweit I went on in a buglato the little island of Machan,
and thence beat up the channel, passing between the island of Boobian
and the main, and so up a more Northerly creek, until I landed at Bunder
Zobeir, distant only some 12 miles from Busreh. I found the channel
varying from 1 to 2 miles in breadth, and with soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. throughout
of from 5 to 8 and even 10 fathoms.
4. At Bunder Zobeir the bugla Large trading vessel. lay close alongside the bank, and
with 4 or 5 fathoms on her outer side.
5. Landing at Bunder Zobeir, I traced the bed of an ancient canal
up to the ruins of Ashooneeah, situate rather more than a mile to the
Eastward of the present Fort of Zobeir.
6. Some narrow channels, one in particular, were observable running
in the direction of Busreh. And I was told that in high tides canoes
can leave the Shat-ul-Arab at a point 3 or 4 miles below Busreh and
come out at Bunder Zobeir.
7. Leaving the ruins of Ashooneeah, I moved in an Easterly direction
with a little southing across a plain, intersected in all directions by
hundreds of earthen dykes, and hearing all the marks of having once
been a richly and carefully cultivated plain.
8. Striking the Shat-ul-Arab at Zein opposite to Mahomera, I
crossed in a canoe, and so passing along the Bamosheer, turned North
east, some little distance up the Huffar towards the Karoon, and there
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