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Muttaraii.
Muttarah is a small village, inhabited by merchants and their
slaves,
in a small cove, a quarter of a mile to the eastward of Muttra.
Rum,
Riam is a village, inhabited by merchants and their slaves, in a small
cove, one mile ENE. of Muttra. In this cove there are three fathoms
water a cable-length from the shore. The northeast point is also the
east point of Muttra Bay,
Khulboo.
Khulboo is a small town, also inhabited by merchants and ship
builders. It is situated in a cove formed by the north-east point of
Riam Cove and Ras Muskat. The pave is half a mile wide, and half a
mile deep, and has soundings of ten fathoms across the entrance to three
fathoms inside, a cabledength from the shore,

Ras Muskat.
Ras Muskat is the west point of Muskat Cove, and is high and bluff,
with three and four fathoms water close to it.

Ras Seerar.
Ras Seerah is the north-west point of Muskat Island, and east point
of the cove. It is in lat. 23? 38' 50* N. The island from this point to
the gap in Muskal Cove is one mile long, and a quarter of a mile wide
in the broadest part.
Fisherman’s Rock.
Fisherman’s Rock is about two hundred and eighty yards off the
bluff of Ras Seerah. and twenty off the low rocky point. There is a
small boat channel, with two and a half fathoms, between them. Out*
side the rock there are seven fathoms within five yards of it, You
should pass close round it going into the cove.
Muskat Cove.
Muskat Cove is formed by Ras Muskat on the east, and Fisherman’s
Rock and Ras Seerah on the west, Muskat Island forming the whole
of that side, while the cape running out from Muskat and Khulboo forms
the other. It is rather more than three quarters of a mile wide between
the points on the west side. Between a small point with a half-moon
and other batteries on it, and Jilla Farsah, is a bay where the ships
large boats are laid up and repaired, being sheltered from most
winds. In the oove there is room, exclusive of the bay just described,
for forty or fifty sail of ships and large vessels, the soundings shoaling
from thirteen and fourteen fathoms at the entrance to. three fathoms
about a quarter of a mile from the bottom of the co.ye. The cove is

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