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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [54] (63/432)
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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54
EIVER ROUTES
Sharp change of direction from W. to NNE. Hills rise
steeply from river on r. bank: low foreshore to left. Sulphur
spring in this neighbourhood.
Diagonal shingle ledge reported in 1. w., 1892, as being
covered by 2^ ft. of water. Channel near r. bank. Several
small ravines and low cliffs on r. bank.
Qal'ali Jabbar, ruins of fort, on a hill about -J m. from
river. Deep ravines to N. and S., of which the northern
curves S. along part of the W. side. The hill is thus
triangular, with its apex to W., where it is connected by
a saddle with the hills on the landward side. Its plateau
is 325 ft. at its lowest point, about 700 ft. at its highest
(SE.), above the bottom of the ravines. The. wall on the
river side of the plateau still remains: it is about 13 ft.
thick. It was reported in 1898 that there was a sulphurous
spring below this ruin.
Mounds. Broken water called Hamrah (authority 1910).
Mouth of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Jahannam, a water-course, usually dry.
It lies in a ravine which runs from NW. to SE., roughly
parallel with the course of the Tigris above the junction with
the Lesser Zab, at a distance from the r. bank of the Tigris
varying between 1 and 3| m. The gorge continues narrow
for about 20 m. up, then it widens till it is several miles
broad. Under the name of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Talib it may apparently
be traced across the desert, bearing more to the north, till
its head is reached in the Kaiyara Hills, perhaps 20-30 m.
WNW. of Kaiyara oil-springs.
Ford passable in autumn, called Esh-Shejereh, is reported
hereabouts, but may be the same as that mentioned under
m. 88i.
Miles
70i
71i
731
75
76i
781
80|
83
86
87
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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