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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [270] (279/568)
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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270 COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPOET
and the Diyaleh) serve as roads fit for motor transport; where they
are fairly intact they are protected from flood by their banks and
by the high level of their beds,
(b) Eoutes for pack-animals.
Paths fit for pack-animals (at least in the dry season) can be found
in the cultivated country along the rivers and canals. There are
also routes used by camel and donkey caravans across the steppes
(e. g. Baghdad—Mendali, Kut el-Amara—Bedrah, Amara—Dizful,
in the plains NE. of the Tigris; and between the rivers, Hilla—
Bogheileh, Afaj—Bogheileh).
(c) Bridges.
The rivers of Irak are crossed at a number of points by boat-
bridges. Most of these consist of a roadway on pontoons or native
boats {safmehs or danalcs). Usually one or more portions of such
a boat-bridge can be swung open to let vessels pass. In a high flood
a boat-bridge may have to be temporarily removed. It seems that
most of the boat-bridges can take fairly light wheeled transport, but
before the war some of them (e. g. that at Museyib) were apparently
fit for pack-animals only.
There are a number of brick bridges carrying roadways across
canals in northern Irak ; and there is an iron bridge across the
Kharr canal, 4 miles from Baghdad, on the Baghdad—Nejef road.
Eecent railway and road-construction has involved a good deal of
bridge-building along the line of the Tigris and elsewhere.
The smaller water-cuts are bridged, if at all, by planks of palm-
tree wood, which may not be practicable for laden pack-animals.
The Euphrates from Pellujeh downwards is bridged at the follow
ing points :
Fellujeh (boat-bridge).
Museyib (boat-bridge).
Hindiyeh Barrage at the head of the Hindiyeh branch ; the
barrage forms a bridge capable of taking heavy wheeled transport,
which cannot use the Museyib boat-bridge.
Tawarlj (on the Hindiyeh branch ; boat-bridge).
Ktifeh (on the Ktifeh channel of the Hindiyeh branch; boat-bridge).
Hilla Eegulator (at the head of the Hilla branch; the regulator
affords a bridge capable of taking heavy wheeled transport).
Hilla (on the Hilla branch ; boat-bridge).
Diwaniyeh (on the Hilla branch ; boat-bridge).
Samaweh (boat-bridge).
Nasiriyeh (boat-bridge).
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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