11 At the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, there is a 45-mile long area between the Arabian Peninsula and Persia. Some small islands may be found there as well. The main island, and by far the largest amongst them, is Hormuz which used to be known in the past as Gerun. Hormuz stands in 27° N. latitude; nine miles from the Persian coast, thirty miles from the Arabian coast, and it is just over nine miles in radius. It is an extremely barren land; nothing green grows there, hardly ever. The only things of benefit there are the rock-salt and Sulphur mines. It also has three perennial springs, but no other sources of drinking water. In spite of these extreme conditions, all kinds of supplies are available in abundance: game, fresh and dried fruit found anywhere in the world, as well as fruit that are totally different from European ones. They all come from Persia in large quantities. The city of Hormuz is located in the island
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