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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [50] (59/432)
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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50
EIVER ROUTES
Right Bank
now intervenes between these hills and the bank : it is called
Hawi Matarideh. Island.
A little above the island is Tel es-Suq: ruin mound.
In the river are rocks said to be uncovered in 1. w. season.
The Hawi Matarldeh ends. The hills close in on the
river, and the bank is lined by steep conglomerate cliffs
rising to 80 ft. for about 2 m.
The name of the hills here changes from Jebel Selweh to
Jebel Ajzau. See m. 33^.
A ford passable in 1. w. season was reported in 1910 at
a point described as being at ^ hour's walk above the Jebel
Selweh.
Qalat Abu Riyash, ruined building on rocky cliffs above
the river. In 1908 it had almost disappeared, the high ground
on which it stands having been eroded by the river and
fallen away. Above Qal'at Abu Eiyash the cliffs recede
somewhat from the r. bank.
A number of shingle banks lie above this point, and
extend up to the Hamrln Hills. Some of these banks form
small rapids, but it seems probable that even in 1. w. there
would be 3-|-6 ft. of water over most of them. They are
liable to be much altered by the annual floods. The channel
appears generally to follow the r. bank.
A sandy plain begins along the 1. bank. It is 6 m. long
and If m. broad, and bounded on the W. by low sand-hills
50 ft. high, which the Mosul road skirts.
A series of tamarisk-covered islands lying towards the
r. bank hereabouts extends up as far as the Fet-hah gorge
(see m. 63 below).
Khan el-Kliarnineh, a Turkish military post for 40-50
men, situated on the Mosul—Samarra road at some distance
inland among the ruins of a thirteenth-century building.
Beiji village (15 houses of Jebur) reported in 1910 on
the river bank.
Shereimiyeh. Turkish military post and khan. The
former, a whitish building, is visible from the river: the
khan cannot be seen from a raft. Good camping-ground
some hundred yards from the river. Between Shereimiyeh
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917'
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