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mouth of this river is a small island, formed by the sands, brought 
down; which adapts this situation to Arrian’s account of Hieratemis. 
At the place marked by Dr. Vincent as Bodargus there is now no 
torrent: but I learn from Dr. Jukes and Mr. Bruce, that at Harem , 
situated thirty miles inland on the declivity of the mountains to the 
eastward, there is a water which finds its way to the sea, and may, per¬ 
haps, accord with the position required. 
The islands in the Gulph of Persia retain little of their political cele¬ 
brity, Ormus (ever the most barren, its soil being composed of salt and 
sulphur) still displays its arched reservoirs, which afford good watering 
places for vessels, and which are said never to dry up. On the island of 
Kenn , according to the people of the country, is found, after rain, gold 
dust in the channels of the torrents. And Bahrein , which is now in 
the hands of the JVahabees , is still noted for the fresh springs which issue 
from the earth under the sea, and from which the Arabs contrive to 
water their ships by placing over the spot a vessel with a syphon at¬ 
tached to it. Captain Skeine, who commanded an Arab ship, told 
the gentleman (who communicated the circumstances to me), that he 
had himself drawn the water at the depth of one fathom. The same 
submarine springs extend along the neighbouring coast of Arabia. 
■Kkarrack , which is now the principal watering place on the north of 
the Culph, and the island, where the pilots for the Bussorah river are 
stationed, is perhaps good for few other purposes. The Sheik indeed, 
though enjoying profound peace, presented memorials to the Sheik of 
Bushire , representing that his troops and himself were in a state of 
starvation. Among the duties entrusted by the Government of Shiraz 
to the Nasakchee Bashee , he was instructed to proceed to Kharrack , to 
inspect the fortifications, and to report on their capability of defence. 
Pearl-Fishery.—-There is. perhaps, no place in the world where those 
things which are esteemed riches among men, abound more than in 
the Persian gulph. Its bottom is studded with pearls, and its coasts 
with mines of precious ore. The island of Bahrein. , on the Arabian 
shore, has been considered the most productive bank of the pearl 
