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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [31] (40/432)
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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i
THE TIGRIS—ROUTE III D
31
Inter
mediate
distance
Miles
li
2i
Mouth of Shatt el-Adheim; near its confluence with the
Tigris it has a trough some 45 yds. wide and 13 ft. deep.
It flows in a valley from m. to 1| m. wide and 65 ft. deep.
In December 1904 it was reported as having a depth of
about 4 ft. and a current of 1 to 1^ m. per hour; in h.w.
both depth and velocity must be much greater; but in l.w
the river dries up altogether.
Followed up-stream its course runs NNE. to the foot of the
Hamrln Hills ( T 40 m.),then K, and NNW. to near Kirkuk.
The river leaves the hills by a broken dam and cuts its way
through the flat plain to the Tigris. Large areas of wheat and
barley are still cultivated in this plain if the rains are
favourable, but since the bursting of the Hamrln dam there
has been no irrigation in the country-side, and the river near
its mouth has broken through the dry course of the
Nahrawan. The "Adheim adds considerably to the volume
of the Tigris.
Report, 1892, mentions Khan Dliulu iyeh (Khan Dh ulei'ah ?)
as a large khan on 1. bank 1 m. above the mouth of the
'Adheim. In this neighbourhood the dry course of the old
Nahrawan Canal is resumed on the 1. bank, here called Nahr er-
Rasasi. 1 m. WNW. of the khan the course of the main bed
of the Nahrawan Canal turns NW., while a branch, called
Nahr el-Qa'im, continues to follow the 1. bank of the river.
Between them lies a swampy area into which streams from
the hills flow in h.w., breaking up the line of the Nahrawan
Canal. At the same point another dry canal, the ancient
Nahr el-Batt, enters the Nahrawan from the NNE,, and in
the angle so formed are the ruins of Tel Mahasil {? part
of the ruins of Opis. See m. 49.) The Nahr el-Batt is
a relic of the ancient irrigation system of this region. Im
mediately above the Hamrln dam (see under m 59^) two
canals were taken off on either side, which carried the waters
of the Adheim, blocked by the dam, into the Tigris at different
points. Of these the westernmost was the Nahr el-Batt, the
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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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