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GULF OF PERSIA.

Nearly East of El Kron.
Nearly cast of El Kron, distant eight or nine miles, is a small patch,
with only five fathoms on it.
Remarks.—From iat. 27° 39'N., long. 49° 24' E., to the island of
El Kron, northerly to the Boosafaa or Durable Shoal, to the south-east
enclosing the islands of Yercdel, Jenncc, and the Mullamacl Shoals, is
full of patches and shoals, and should not be attempted to be navigated
at night, nor yet in the day, without a pilot, unless well acquainted with
the place.
Rocky Knoll.
Rocky Knoll is very small, and nearly dry, in lat. 26° 59' 30" N.,
long. 49° 56' 30" E.; soundings ten and seven fathoms close to it.

Three small Patches.
Three small patches extend from lat. 27° 13' N., long. 50° E., in a
south-west direction, nine miles.
A Siioal.
A shoal, the shoalest part of which has two and a half fathoms on it,
lies in lat. 27° 8' N., long. 50° 9' 30" E. It is three miles long, in a
north-east direction.
Mullamael Siioal.
The shoalest part of Mallamael Shoal, two and a quarter fathoms, is
in lat. 26° 59' N., long. 50° 16' 40" E. This shoal is oblong, and has
soundings in the other parts from three to seventeen fathoms, very irre­
gular.
Boosafaa, or Durable Shoal.
The northern part of Boosafaa or Durable Shoal is in lat. 26° 59' N.,
long. 50° 24' 20" E., and extends six miles S. 30° E. true. It has barely
one fathom on it at low-water. In approching it from the northward,
the soundings shoal suddenly after twenty fathoms. The ship Durable,
Guthrie, Master, was lost herein 1817, which was the first of the shoal’s
existence being known to Europeans.
Epheraii Pearl Bank.
Epherah Pearl Bank is a bank of rocks, and considered one of the
richest of the pearl banks. It has sixteen fathoms water to the north­
ward, and ten to the southward. On the bank, the soundings are
irregular, from four to eight fathoms. The centre of the bank is in
lat. 26° 50' N., long. 50° 37' 30" E. It is about five miles over from
north to south, and about ten miles from east to west.

Fasiit Surraii.
Fasht Surrah is in lat. 26° 40' N., long. 50° 36' E., to lat. 26° 36' N.,

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