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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [170] (179/432)
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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170
LAND EOUTES
Miles from
Baghdad
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Kazimain. From here the possible tracks strike across an
open cultivated plain, liable to inundation in the spring
floods. In Feb. 1903 the water-cuts in this region were
easy to pass. The best track for wheels is said to keep
about 3 m. from the river in order to avoid water-cuts
and marshy ground.
For the track which diverges to the 1. beyond Kazimain and
leads NW, across the desert to Anah, see 48.
A possible track follows the top of a raised dyke along the
river, leading to two water-cuts a m. farther on, which
have to be crossed. One had no bridge in 1903, and its
ford would require improving for guns. The other had
only a palm-tree bridge 3 ft. wide.
Cross two small canals, with palm-tree bridges 6 ft. high.
Eoad follows top of canal bank 20-30 ft. high. Keeping
in a general direction between N. and N. by W., it now
leaves the neighbourhood of the river, which bends to the
E. near Haseiweh.
A track apparently branches off in a NNE. direction to the Babi
tract on the^ r. bank of the Tigris, whence it runs N. to the
Qal'at Tarmiyeh police post. Beyond Qal'at Tarimyeh a track
seems to follow the course of the river. (Thus on the right bank
opposite Sindiyeh about 9 m. NNE. of Qal'at Tarmiyeh is
a grove of poplar described as a halting-place for caravans from
Baghdad.)
A line of ruin-mounds is passed.
Well with good water 20 ft. below the surface.
A canal with bank 10 ft. high is skirted.
Khan Meshahidiyeh. Railway station. A brick khan
100 yds. by 90 yds., with walls 18 ft. high, crenellated on
top. There is a semicircular bastion at each corner, and
a small square one in the middle of the curtain. Close to
the khan is a two-storied zpost, with stabling for
six horses and a courtyard 16 yds. by 12 yds. There is
a well, perennial but brackish, water being 35 ft. below
the surface. Water can also be obtained in skins from
the river, about 4 m. to the E. (opposite Reshldiyeh on the
1. bank). The country round the khan is desert.
Ground low: boggy in winter. Beyond this cultivation
begins again.
Khor Tarmiyeh. : swamp about 1 m. to E, Euin -heaps
and old canal beds henceforward frequent.
Road runs through a group of ruin-mounds.
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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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