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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [185] (194/432)
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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KOUTE 28 a
185
Miles from
Baghdad
into condition for the passage of guns. The river is
fordable in this neighbourhood during the 1. w. season.
The approaches on both sides are soft and likely to be
slippery after rain. The banks of the river are perpen
dicular, the r. being 15 ft. and the 1. 30 ft. above the
level of the water. The road now runs in an easterly
direction through high-walled gardens and enters Baqubeh.
It is reported that a force attempting to cross the river here
from either side could be brought to either bank under
cover, on the r. owing to the configuration of the ground,
on the 1. owing to the town walls and palm-trees.
Eaqubeh.. Pop. 4,000-5,000. P.O., T. There is good
camping ground to be found anywhere outside the town.
Supplies abundant. Water from the river. Forage and
fuel plentiful. No camels. About 20 other transport
animals could be collected daily.
The route now runs in a general north-easterly direction to
Abu Jezreh. To this point the road is good and pass
able to all arms in dry weather. Some of the canals
would require ramping, and some of them are crossed by
rickety bridges. In wet weather the worst part of the
road is the last mile. Between Baqubeh and the frontier
(100 m.) the road used to be dangerous owing to the
depredations of the Shammar Arabs and Hamawand
Kurds, and more recent accounts (e. g. 1909) suggest that
this was still the case in the years immediately preceding
the present war.
The road emerges from the northern entrance of Eaqubeh
through the walled gardens, bearing easterly, and winds
through hillocky ground over numerous irrigation chan
nels, and would be deep and bad in wet weather.
Cross an irrigation channel. Koad here broad and level
over an alluvial plain. To NW. lie numerous villages.
The ground is low and in parts marshy, and cut up
by frequent irrigation channels which sometimes contain
water. To E. is a plain stretching to a distant range of
low hills on which there are a few hamlets visible. The
plain is barren but green with camel-thorn and patches of
grass.
Cultivation on either side, and large villages 4 m. to NW.
Ground very bad in wet weather.
Caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of Abu Jezreh; accommodation for some
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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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