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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [38r] (80/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND 39
of water in the flood season, especially in the Shamiya region, is to
smooth out fluctuations and to reduce flood peaks, so that the river
here is sluggish, though the normal difference between low- and high-
water level in the river is still as much as 6 feet (i , 83 metres. Septem
ber 2-SS m.; May 4-38 m.). On the other hand, below Nasmya some
water is brought in flood time by the ‘tail’ of the Shatt al Gharraf
and much from the marshes west of the Tigris above Qurna.
In 1837 Chesney found a defined and navigable Euphrates channel
from Nasiriya to Qurna, a state which appears to have lasted for
another thirty years (figs. 10,11). According to Willcocks, the channel
in 1870 still joined the Tigris at Qurna. But soon afterwards the
river, overburdened by an exceptional high flood from the Shatt al
Gharraf, burst its right bank between Suq ash Shuyukh and Qurna,
submerged the channel and lands surrounding it, converted the
Hammar marshes into a wide expanse of lake, and broke a new out
let channel from this lake into the Shatt al Arab at Qarmat All,
iust above Basra. The old channel became silted up and unnavigable
for 2^ or 30 miles immediately below Suq ash Shuyukh. During the
War of 1914-1918 an attempt was made to dredge the old channe
and to connect it with a straight cut, the ‘Haffar’ channel, to the
‘tail’ of the river below Suq ash Shuyukh, but without any lasting
success, for the river then scoured its bed above the dredged channel,
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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