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The Gulf of Arabia

A beautiful chart of The Gulf of Arabia published by William Heather in 1805. The chart includes five inset panels and thirteen views.

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The centerpiece of this chart is the Gulf from the entrances between Muscat, on the Arabian Coast, and Iskin Point, on the Persian Coast, up to Bussorah on the River Euphrates.

The plans are as follows: 'Bussorah', by Lieutenant J. MacCluer and others; 'Muscat & Mutrah' by Lieutenant MacCluer;  'Busheer', by Captain Simmons;   'Carrack & Corgo', from a French manuscript survey and finally, 'Jasques', by M. Hunter.

The views are of: 'High Land of Ramus', 'Cape Bang over the island of Corgo', 'Cape Jasques to the Hill below Cape Bumbarrack', by Lieutenant McCluer, 'Carrack Island', 'Nobfleur Island', 'Cape Kenn beyond Cape Verdistan', 'Great and Little Tomb with C. Certes', 'Quoin and Gap Islands', 'High Land to the Eastward of Cape Mucksa', 'Swardy Islands', Muscat Island, Fisherman’s Rock and 'Cape Mufseldom'. When studying this chart, questions arise in regard to William Heather’s source material. Heather credits the panels and the views to surveyors, but gives no credit to the cartographical and hydrographical sources of the main survey. Of note is the elaborate and stylish cartouche that boldly credits the publisher and implicitly suggests that William Heather was the surveyor, which he was not. Further research may lead to a connection between the work of Bartholomew and other hydrographers of this time. Heather makes reference to use of Persian charts, as does Lt. D. Bartholomew on his surveys of the same region (see charts A716 and A720).