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which, when the rock bears N. 44° W., can be seen completely through.
It is in lat. 57° 19' 55" N., long. 25° 51' 55" E.
Ras-ool-Kiiore.
Ras-ool-Khorc, commonly called Cape Moobaruk, is the south-eastern
point of a small creek, with a fathom to a fathom and a half water within
it. The lias also forms the eastern point of the bay, as Ras Jask forms
the western. It is in lat. 25° 47' 5" N., long. 57° 20' 10" E. The sound-
ings from Ras Ayshccr to this cape arc from twenty to six fathoms, and
the coast is safe to approach to the distance of a mile.
Rocky Siioal, or Ternate’s Shoal.
Rocky Shoal, or Ternate’s Shoal, is a small rocky shoal, about five
hundred yards over, with a fathom and a half water on it, and sound­
ings of seven to four and a half fathoms within it, and three to ten
without it, still clay bottom. It is in lat. 25° 43j' N., long. 57° 29' 20"
E. Inshore, abreast of this, a rocky bank runs off the shore a mile and
a half.
Quoin Hill.
A remarkable quoin-shaped hill lies in lat. 25° 49|'N., long. 57° 43' E.

Jask Town.
Jask Town is a town of some trade, in lat. 25° 3S' 50" N., long. 57°
46' 40" E. At this place water and a few bad supplies may be obtained.
It belongs to the Imaum of Muskal, and horses and several sorts of dry
fruit, as well as ghee and some cotton, are exported from it. The
soundings in the bay from Ras-ool-Khore, except what have been de­
scribed, are from seven to eight and four fathoms ; the anchorage oft’ the
town is in five fathoms; the fort N. 43° E., Quoin Hill N., true bearings.
Ras Jask, or Cape Jask.
Ras Jask or Cape Jask is a low projecting rocky point, in lat. 25° 37'
55" N., long. 57° 47' 10" E. It has a small ruin on it, and there are
some remarkable banian trees about three miles inland. Four miles on
the western side from the pitch of the cape is a salt-water creek, running
iuto a sort of lagoon, about eight or nine miles within. There is a
narrow channel over the banks at its entrance, with six feet water;
within are from one and a half to three fathoms. On the western side of
the cape is a fiat, with three and four fathoms on it, shoaling off
gradually to ten and twenty, but no danger if attention is paid to the
lead. The anchorage off Jask Town is good in a south-easter, while
that on the eastern side the cape, and close in shore, is of the very best
in a north-wester. You lay half a mile off shore in five or six fathoms,
mud. It is high-water at 5h. 50m. full and change; rise of tide about
five feet. The variation in 1S29 was 2° 40' W.