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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [86] (95/432)
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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86
KIVEE EOUTES
Right Bank
Total
distance
Bend which drives stream against a cliff on the r., causing
a rush of water at the turn, 3-4 ft. deep in low water.
Shingle ledge at the bend. Eaftsmen in October 1892 got on
to the shingle and held the painter while the raft swung
round.
Seba Gerani, 20 houses.
Chadcherin, 15 houses, ^ m. away from river.
Above this point rapids are more numerous and reaches
generally shallower than in the neighbourhood of Altun
Koprii.
Valley-flat in this neighbourhood about m. broad,
between conglomerate cliffs 30 ft. high. Higher up it
broadens to about f m. Hereabouts is an island past which
the r. bank channel is the deeper (2 ft. of water).
Two small ledges (1 ft.-18 in. of water).
In 1892 there was here a village of Chogha Hasan, a
Girdi Kurd, about 1 m. from river. It consisted of 30 huts.
KhnrMiur village, 80 houses. River-flat of shingle
f m. broad, covered only in flood.
Sharp bend, at which is a ledge with 18 in. of water.
Between m. 89 and 90 stream divided into various smaller
channels, besides the main channel, which had 2 ft. of water
in the low season and was 50 yds. broad. Tamarisk and
artemisia plentiful on the banks. Some distance above the
point where these minor channels took off' there was a large
island. The r. bank channel-was followed over some ledges
having 18 in.-2 ft. of water.
Upper end of large island mentioned above.
Sardik, 40 houses, on a knoll. Shallow ledges (18 in.-2 ft.
of water extending for 400 yds.)
Channel narrowed to 50 yds. ; depth, 6 ft.
Channel broader again.
Shingle ledge with 1 ft. of water, and ^ nu farther on
another ledge with 18 in.
Sheitaueh, 20 houses, close to r. bank. Deep reach here.
Shingly island. K. bank channel the deeper.
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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)
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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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- '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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