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come more numerous and more irregular in
their outline as they approach the Cape.

This indentation is also continued on the
western side of the promontory, and a narrow

ridge, five hundred yards in width, is all that
separates Kasab Bay on one side, and Goobut
Gurei’yah on the other. There are probably

few parts of the world presenting an outline
so tortuous and irregular as the space in­

cluded between this isthmus and the Cape.
A succession of villages and date-groves
extend from Sehinas to Dibha, where the

maritime plain (Batna of the Map) com­
mences. At Dibha the Imam has a fort,

and he formerly drew from the village a small
annual revenue of four thousand dollars.

Water, vegetables, and cattle, all good in
their several kinds, may be obtained here.
It has a few boats, which are employed in

bringing grain from the Persian shore. The
intermediate parts of Khdrfakan and Kh6r

Kulba are similar in size and in the produc­
tions they afford to Dibha.

From Dibha to the northward, a range of
mountains rise up directly from the sea, ex­
hibiting in many places the most romantic