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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [238] (247/542)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 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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238
Miles from
c Ali el-
Gharbi
28^
381
LAND EOUTES
Mileage continued from Alternative (i)
Enter the foot-hills by the bed of the Tyb, passable, in the
low season only, for infantry, cavalry, and pack-mule
transport.
The defile of the Tyb between Kuweit and the Deh Laran
oaa 11 ls _ about 10 m - in length, and its breadth varies from
oOO to 500 yds. The hills on either side are very steep
and broken, running to a height of 500-700 ft. above the
river-bed. They are of sandstone of terra-cotta colour.
In the low season the river winds from bank to bank
leaving most of the bed dry. The dry part is covered
with water-worn pebbles and small boulders, and con
tains a considerable amount of low scrub. On account
of its windings the stream has to be often forded. In
the flood season the whole bed is filled, and the defile is
impassable even for men going singly on foot.
Reach the Deh Luran plain.
Deh Luran
See Route 10 a, m. 79 and m. 80|.
EOUTE 8 e
ALI EL-GHARBI—DEH BALA (108| m.)
Authorities: Force 'D; Route Eeport, Serial no. 10 (1916); Routes
vol, lii, no. 103 (Report of November, 1909).
In May 1916 a sotnia of Russian Cossacks (110 men with 10 pack-
horses) traversed approximately the route given below, coming from
Maludesht by Deh Bala. For the first part of their route, N. of
eh Bala, see Route 9. The details are mainly from
Feisia, vol. iii, no. 103 ; they are said to have been borne out by the
Russians experience. The r.oad in the hills is passable for pack-
transport only and is sometimes difficult for that. Light snow was
met with in May near Marbarreh (see under m. 85|). Supplies were
pui chased by the Russians from the villages but this would
be impossible for a larger force. Good water was reported by
-Kussian officers to be obtainable everywhere except between Ali
e ' ,. ai ?' n( ^ hills: the report in Routes in Persia, however,
mentions that the water at the Chashmeh Gumbad-i-Khatun (m. 38)
and from the Ganjan Cham river at Dum Qalameh (m. 64|) is sul
phurous. Good grazing found everywhere in May except for 12 m.
on the Deh Bala side of the Shah Nachir hills. Fuel abundant in
the hills.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume II, Irak, The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, May, 1917), covering the regions of the Shatt el-‘Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab], Kārūn, Luristan, and the Tigris and Euphrates up to Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallūjah]. 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.
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a 'Contents' which include the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (Shatt el-‘Arab, The Kārūn, The Tigris, The Euphrates, The Shatt el-Hai);
- Land Routes (The Region of the Shatt el-‘Arab, The Tigris Valley, The Region of the Lower Kārūn River of Luristan, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between the Tigris and Euphrates Valley, The Arabian Desert);
- Railways;
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note and List of Maps;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendices (A: Notes on Weather on the Tigris, B: The Control of the Tigris Water, C: The Control of the Euphrates Water, D: Oil-Fields of the Mesopotamia and Persian Frontier, E: Note on Mules);
- Index;
- Plates;
- Maps.
The volume includes eight plates that illustrate the volume. There are also three maps:
- 'Baghdad';
- 'City Map of Baghdad';
- 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged accourding to numbered routes. There is a table of contents at the front of the volume and an alphabetical index at the back. There is also a list of plates and two maps are house in a pocket and one is a foldout.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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 the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:374, 374a:374b, 375:530, back-i
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