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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [122] (131/432)
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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122
RIVER ROUTES
Right Bank
sesame, corn, and barley. The live stock consists mainly of
sheep.
From here up to Deir ez-Zor (about 70 m.) there is
almost continuous cultivation by water-lifts, but the culti
vated strip scarcely reaches more than m. from the river.
Mouth of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sawab.
Island in mid-stream. There are stiff rapids at this point,
and the river was reported in 1908 to be divided here into
three channels (i.e. by the island already mentioned and
another which is perhaps formed only at low water). The
navigable channel then kept close to the r. bank.
The course of the river becomes extremely sinuous,
Tel Madquq, about SJ m. W. from river, near road, 60 ft.
high with graves on top.
Short, stiff rapid, the top of which was reported in 1903
as 18 miles below Salahiyeh Khan.
Hereabouts the river was reported very shallow in Jan.-
Feb. 1908, with snags all over it; there were two country
boats seen wrecked here.
Island. Channel in 1908 followed r. bank.
A shallow (5 ft. of water in a narrow navigable channel)
A m. below Salahiyeh Khan was reported in Jan.-Feb. 1908.
Salahiyeh Khau, police
and T.L., ^ m. from river.
post below the cliffs, on road
No supplies procurable. The
khan is said to be the worst on the road, dilapidated, and
used as a zaptieh post. Some cultivation worked by Arabs
living in tents.
Shallow (reported Jan.-Feb. 1908) with spits of sand
showing above water.
Qal'at Salahiyeh (or Khan Kalasi), ruined fortified
town in strong position on plateau, commanding many miles
Total
distance
Miles
89
91
93i
961
106i
109
116
119
126i
127
129
180
la
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:422, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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