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Ras Goberiiindee, South Point.
Ras Gobcrhindee, South Point, is in lat. 26° 18' 30" N., long.. 56°
35' E. It is a high bluff, forming the northern point of Dooat Shesah.
It has seventeen fathoms water four yards off its base. The Persian
Coast is nearer this point than anywhere else in the Gulf, being twenty-
seven miles across.
Dooat Shesah.
Dooat Shesah is the first inlet to the southward of Cape Musseldom,
is near seven miles deep, and about twenty-two or twenty-three round.
It has seven small coves within it, varying in depth from half a mile to a
mile and a half. There is a small village with a few huts at the bottom of
the inlet. The soundings over the inlet are thirty-four to forty fathoms.
In some of the small coves it is the same, and in two of them there are
ten and sixteen fathoms close to the shore, the bottom hard sand and
rock. On the north-west side of the inlet there are two or three small
rocky islets. The bottom of this inlet is separated from Colville’s
Cove by a ridge of about two-thirds of a mile, and from the bottom of
Elphinstone Inlet by a ridge not more than two hundred yards at the
base, and about three hundred feet high. The natives have a sheep
track over.
Ras Kasah.
Ras Kasah is a projecting rocky point, forming the southern point of
Dooat Shesah. It is rugged, and has twenty-six fathoms water close
to it; about a mile off there are sixty fathoms. It is in lat. 26°* 14' 20"
N., long. 56° 33£' E.

Omal Pheerrim, commonly called Fillam Rock.
Omal Pheerrim, commonly called Fillam Rock, is a rocky islet, high
in the centre, in lat. 26° 10' 12" N., long. 56° 36' 30" E. It is three
and a quarter miles off Ras Bashine, the nearest shore. The soundings
between them are thirty-two fathoms near the cape, fifty in mid-channel,
and thirty-eight near the rock outside. The soundings are thirty-four
close to the rock, and sixty to seventy fathoms one and two miles off.
Ras Bashine.
Ras Bashine is a projecting rocky point, forming the northern point
of Dooat Rathrat, or Bradford’s Cove. It is in lat. 26° 10' 40" N.,
long. 56° 38" E. It is steep, with soundings a few yards off of twenty
to thirty fathoms.
Dooat Rathrat, or Bradford’s Cove.
Dooat Rathrat, or Bradford’s Cove, is an inlet something similar
to those before described. Round a rocky point, on its north-west side,