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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [62] (71/432)
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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KIVER EOUTES
Eight Bank
Village of Matuk and island. The bank is comparatively
low. Tel er-Kaguba, conglomerate mound about 60 ft. high.
Broken water due to rocks.
Low conglomerate cliffs on r. bank. These appear to be
the end of a line of low eminences running WNW. for about
20-80 m. At this end quite low, the chain is reported to
rise to some 500 ft. at its western extremity. On the
S. slope of these hills lie the heads of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Talib (or
Jahannam) and esh-Shabablk, N. of this rising ground
lies Kaiyara valley.
Conglomerate cliffs end.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Massal, carrying
some water to river (May). It appears that it does not
come from Qaiyariyeh (Kaiyara ?) as might be supposed.
Mouth of oily stream flowing into the Tigris from the
NW. Near this point large encampment of Jebur (1910).
Samarra—Mosul route passes near this point.
Kaiyara bitumen springs and oil refinery. These lie
about 2 m. inland near the oily stream, on the r. bank of
which are the new oil-works. Shortly before these are
reached from the Tigris an old fortified enclosure is passed.
A report of 1910 says: 'The bitumen springs are situated
in the beginning of some low hills, where they form an
expanse of bitumen [which may be compared to a surface of
inky water covered with jet black ice] irregularly shaped,
with an average diameter of about 100 yds. The surface is
all bitumen, in places hard, in places viscous, in places soft;
and there are oozings here and there of sulphurous water.
The bitumen is collected soft in the open watery spots and
packed in skins; what is taken away during the day is re
placed in the night. The crude bitumen sells at the springs
for half a heshlih per skin of about 40 lb,, or approximately
8 lb. for a penny.
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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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- Title
- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:422, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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