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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [136] (145/432)
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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186
KIVER EOUTES
Right Bank
Total
distance
Miles
with a spring to NW. of them, both close to the road.
Tamarisk jungle on the banks above Sabkhah.
Siffin district (placed about here by Sarre and Herzfeld : 104 1
there is another Siffln above Kaqqah : see m. 151^, below).
Hamra Rapid, in 1903 said to be short and violent, with 1001
the channel keeping close to 1. bank.
Mohammed Agha Rapid, which in 1903 was reported to 107i
be 300 yds. long, with current 7 m.p.h. ; at the bottom the |
channel was close under 1. bank, and at the top 100 ft.
from it.
From Raqqah to Abu Quba'i there is no rapid, but the
depth of water varies continually from 12 to 4 ft., so that
great care would be necessary for its navigation in low
water.
Abu Qubai district, with tamarisk-growth, on an arm of
the river which is liable to flood. Here there is a very bad
stretch of rapids, which ai'e the more dangerous owing to
the remains of a masonry bridge in the centre of the river.
It was reported in 1903 that above these rapids there was
no difficulty for about 9 miles.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Abu Qubai flows in.
Lower end of El-Hammam Rapids; their upper end is
immediately below the islands near that place (see m. 133|).
In this stretch of river (nearly 3^ miles) the navigable
channel winds among spits of gravel. In January 1903 it
was reported that the current was 6 m.p.h. and that there
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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)
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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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