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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [53] (62/432)
The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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THE TIGRIS—EOUTE HIE
53
Inter
mediate
distance
Miles
Left Bank
The land in this neighbourhood is called Umm el-Leieh.
Hamriu Hills approach close to 1. bank.
In the 1. bank of Fet-hah gorge there are at intervals
stretches of calcareous rock, with threads of petroleum and
bitumen oozing from them.
Suweir rapid, between 1. bank and an island. It was
reported that in the l.w. season of 1892 the current below
this rapid set towards some low cliffs on the 1. bank, under
which there were two flat-topped ledges in the stream covered
by 2^ ft. of water, but forming an eddy dangerous to rafts.
These could be avoided by a deep channel 40 yds. wide near
the island. The Suweir rapid itself was at that time formed
by a long diagonal shingle ledge, partly uncovered but with
2^-3 ft. of water in the channel next the island. The current
was 4^-5^ m.p.h. (A report of May 1910 merely men
tions broken water near the 1. bank, caused by rocks
called Suweir).
Another rapid in the channel between the 1. bank and the
upper end of the Khandida Islands, about 1 m. above the
first. In 1. w., 1892, a channel free of rocks, 60 yds. wide
and over 6 ft. deep, with a current of about 5-| m.p.h., led
up to a shingle ledge extending for 20 yds. with 4 ft. of water.
Upper end of Pet-hah. gorge. The bituminous cliffs of
calcareous rock (see m. 62-|) are here about 20 ft. high.
Hamrin Hills end on 1. bank.
Pet-hah ruins, site of ancient city, at foot of NE. slope of
Hamrln Hills, about ^ m. from river.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser Zāb, the country east of the Tigris towards the Persian frontier, and the routes running westward from the Euphrates valley across the Syrian Desert. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume. This volume was supplemented with corrections and additions in June 1918 (see IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5).
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of 'Contents' which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (The Tigris and the Lesser Zāb, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (The Tigris Valley with Region to East, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, The Syrian Desert);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendix;
- Index;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes', which includes 'City Map of Baghdad' (f. 212) and 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes, Volume III' contained in a pocket.
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- 1 volume (214 folios)
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This volume is arranged according to numbered routes. There is a page of contents and an alphabetical index. There are two maps housed in a pocket.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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