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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [31] (40/568)
The record is made up of 1 volume (282 folios). It was created in 1918. It was written in English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish and Syriac. 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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CLIMATE
31
as midsummer approaches. As in Egypt, the cultivator is dependent
on the water of the rivers for bringing his crops to maturity, but in
Mesopotamia they are at their highest in April and May, whereas the
rains of Abyssinia from June to September produce the annual Nile
flood of Egypt in August and September.
In a region so sparsely inhabited and so little civilized as Meso
potamia, the places at which meteorological observations have been
made are naturally few. Some have been carried on for short periods
among the foot-hills of the Taurus in the northern portion of the
basin of the Euphrates, while others have been made for longer
periods at Baghdad and Basra, and have been published in the
Meteorological Reports of the Indian Government. Besides these,
a series of observations which extends over six years has been made
at Babylon.
We have therefore meteorological observations from the following
places in Mesopotamia, but they are too few in number and extend
over too limited periods to represent adequately the extensive basin
of the Tigris and the Euphrates :
Place,
Period of
Observations.
Altitude,
Latitude N,
Upper Mesopotamia :
Years.
Feet,
'Aintab
Urfeh ....
Diarbekr
Mosul ....
32
2-1
3-4
(3,200
1 2,755*
1,870
1,950
| 980
] 830"
37° 4'
37 13
37 54
36 22
Lower Mesopotamia :
Baghdad
Babylon
Basra ....
Mohammareh
21
5-6
11
i
o
120
100
25
9
33 21
32 30
30 26
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
:
Bushire
Bahrein
.Task ....
Muscat
33
8
18
18
25
18
13
20
29 0
25 47
23 37
Longitude E,
37° 35'
38 47
40 22
43 14
44 26
44 20
48 13
49 50
57 48
58 35
* The altitudes of some stations are uncertain. Those marked with an asterisk
are taken from the Eoyal Geographical Society's map of 1910, the other value
being that quoted in the observations.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Naval Staff, Intelligence Department: November 1918). This is an updated and expanded edition of A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: August 1916) (IOR/L/MIL17/15/41/1). This is an introductory volume containing matter of a general nature giving an account of conditions in Mesopotamia, for the most part as they were before the First World War.
The volume includes a note on official use, a title page and 'Note'. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following chapters and sections:
- Chapter 1: Boundaries and Physical Features;
- Chapter 2: Climate;
- Chapter 3: Minerals;
- Chapter 4: Fauna and Flora;
- Chapter 5: Hygiene;
- Chapter 6: History;
- Chapter 7: Inhabitants;
- Chapter 8: Religions;
- Chapter 9: Administration;
- Chapter 10: Irrigation of Irak [Iraq];
- Chapter 11: Agriculture and Land Tenure;
- Chapter 12: Commerce and Industry;
- Chapter 13: Currency, Weights, and Measures;
- Chapter 14: Communications and Transport;
- Vocabularies;
- Index.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (282 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in numbered chapters. There is a contents page and an alphabetically arranged index.
- 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'. of the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:556, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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