"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٤‎٠‎٤] (١٧٨٢/١٥٥٩)

Commander
W. B. Selby.
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completed by his Assistant, Midshipman Collingwood, a large scale plan*
of Baghdad city ; it was accompanied by a memoir on the province, full of
statistical information, from the pen of Commander Jones himself. I
1854 he sent to England, along with a memoir, three sheets of a
"Babylonian^ survey which he had completed, and which extended fiom
Musaiyib on the Euphrates to the north-west corner of the Bahr-an-Nakf ■
but the maps were lost in the India House. After this, returning p-e'
maturely from leave, he acted as Political Agent at Baghdad from Mar.h
to October 1855.
In 1855 Commander Selby succeeded Commander P. Jones in charge
of the Mesopotamian surveys ; and the districts of Babylon Karbak
Kufah and Najaf, already covered by Commander Jones, were trigono-
metrically resurveyed by him with the assistance of Lieutenants Colling-
wood and Bewsher, besides which a considerable tract of country to the
eastward was taken in.
This survey was finished in 1861; but the clean sheets were again
lost, together with an elaborate paper by Commander Selby. The field
books and original sheets having been procured from Baghdad, however,
an admirable map was produced from them by Lieutenant Collingwood •
it now requires some correction in consequence of natural changes, but
it . t em. unlike 1} to be superseded. Other minor surveys were carried out
by Lieutenant Collingwood.
The general outeome of the Chesuey Expedition, and of 22 years'
labour on the part of the Indian Navy officers mentioned who continued
its work, was that Turkish 'Iraq had been converted from a
terra incogmta into a country perfectly well understood in its main
eatures, whde certain important districts in it had heen carefully
delineated in great detail.
archaeological . v,l hi' politically, but nevertheless of great importance in the
rT ^ arCh{e0l0gical reSearoh ' were excavations undertaken and
the discoveries made by British travellers and officials during this period at
the ancient sites of Assyria and Babylonia. The subject t lies beyond
Batrhtkd r the best in exi8 tence. It was borrowed by the Wali of
itlLr : ? Sldent in 1912 f0r P ractical Ptoses and was used in 1913
lion umW ^ 1768 0 afilm of eIectvl " ca, en &i Deers charged with the installa-
had to worl^ 0 el< ' ctriic tramwa ys and lighting at Baghdad. Collingwood
notimr be ri 0n . , aCC0Unfc of the suspiciousness of the Turkish authorities,
made Commfn T ^ a r ' enCil U P 0n his white shirt - Whilelthe plan was being
1 The fnl J T ab8ented Wlf ^ ^ghdad on other work
Nineveh avrl V ' . 0n ^ ies consulted : Layard's Early Adventures, 1887,
Bahvlon ms f^T*' 1848 ' ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية * ^eav^es in tie Buils of Ninevek and
Babylon^ 1863; Loftua Travels and ^searches, 1857, besides hi articles it the