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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [199] (208/432)
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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EOUTE 28 b
199
Miles from
Baghdad
74
754
761
771
*' 4
77!
78
stream is very rapid near Mandali, about 5 m. an hour,
and the water is about ft. deep and 60 ft. wide at the
end of February. The banks are greatly shelving and
the bottom is pebbly. At the time when the snows have
begun to melt the stream is probably much larger.
The road continues in a general NE. direction. It runs
at first through the narrow street and date gardens
between high mud walls, and crossing several small
irrigation channels emerges on to the plain and follows
the edge of the enclosures.
Date-groves end, and road crosses a wide grassy plain, leading
towards gap in the range in front.
Two small irrigation canals 6 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep are
crossed. Small date plantations, with tombs dotted along
side these canals. There are also several mills, and the
banks are lined for a short distance with barley crops.
The clay soil ends here, and the ground becomes stonier
and rougher.
The Rud-Klianeh-i-Gangir or Ab-i-Ravan (Ganglr Eiver)
lies 500 yds. S., running in a wide gravel bed along
several small channels. The road crosses some low
undulations.
Route lies along the course of the river here 400 yds. wide.
The water is brackish, and the banks quite bare of
vegetation. On the 1. bank are some low sandstone
cliffs.
The Turco-Persian frontier is here marked by a pile of
stones standing just at the mouth of the open valley
through which the road now runs, leaving the plain.
The road is a good 30-ft. track over red sandstone and
gravelly conglomerate. This open defile, where the
river debouches into the plain, is known as the Tang-i-
Stuimar.
Road continues up the valley, here about 1 m. wide, bordered
by low undulating hills. A small and very brackish
stream enters on the left bank from the direction of
Jebel Atish. Naphtha springs lie in that direction. The
river here winds considerably.
[From this point only a summary is here given of the detailed report
in Routes in Persia, vol. iii, no. 95.]
Road continues up Ganglr Valley by a track generally easy
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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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