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is an inner cove, two miles deep, and about six round, the soundine.
on hard bottom, being thirty-three to ten fathoms, the latter close to the
inner shore of the small cove. The whole cove is three and a half
miles deep, and about sixteen round. There are in it two or three
smaller coves, one of which, at the bottom, half a mile deep, has nine
fathoms in it; the soundings are all over rocky bottom, and are from
eighteen to thirty-six fathoms. There is a small village with a few
huls here.
Has Dallaa.
Ras Dallaa is a long, narrow ridge, forming a craggy point, and being
the south point of Dooat Rathrat, and the northern point of Dooat
Guzzerat. It is in lat. 26° 7' 38" N., long. 56° 33' 20" E. The sound­
ings are thirty-two fathoms close to the point.
Dooat Guzzerat, or Malcolm’s Inlet.
Dooat Guzzerat, or Malcolm’s Inlet, is the most extensive of all the
estuaries on this side the mountains. It is more than nine miles deep:
at the entrance it is two miles wide, increasing to three and a quarter
within. In other places it has several coves and bays : two of these
are about three miles deep, and form the inner part of the inlet into two
branches. The whole is about forty-three miles round. In the body
of this inlet the soundings are thirty-three to twenty-four fathoms in
the coves, and near the shores twenty-six to eighteen and ten fathoms ;
and at the bottom of one cove, close in, are seven fathoms. The whole
of the rocks are high, and in many parts difficult to get up. There are
two small villages in the north-western branch, the bottom of which is
separated from Elphinstone Inlet, within the Gulf, by a ridge a mile
and a quarter at the base, but not more than one hundred yards at the
top ; sloping down on both sides. It is also separated from Dooat
Rathrat by a ridge wall from four hundred to about eighty yards
thick. At this place we first heard the people call from one side to the
other in a very shrill voice, and which we were informed they could so
modulate as to be heard some miles among the hills. The bottom, like
that of all the other coves, is hard sand and rock, There is at the
bottom of this cove a remarkable hill, usually called Fillam Peak.
Ras Serkan. !
Ras Serkan is in lat. 26° 5' 24" N., long. 56° 32' 35" E. It is a high :
and bold headland, forming the southern point of Dooat Guzzerat.
There are thirty and thirty-four fathoms close to it.
Dooat Kubbal.
The northern point of Dooat Kubbal is a mile and a quarter NiNE. off
Ras Secnmed, the opposite point, and there are close to ll ^n
fathoms. The cove is three and a half miles deep, and has sounclin0

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