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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [291] (300/432)
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 46
291
Track touches river and enters a plain. It is spoilt by sand
drifts for 1 m. Sinthabaneh Hills to 1., behind which
are said to be quarries of white stone.
T.L. crosses from 1. bank.
Low foot-hills (120 ft. high) dominate the track.
Country becomes dead flat; good soil but no grass.
Two shallow water-courses, sometimes dry, but having
2 to 3 ft. of water at flood.
Ramadiyeh. Heavy going beyond this in the high-water
season.
Koad crosses tributary with banks 6 ft. high crossed by
a single-arched stone bridge. Away from the river the
ground is barren, and beyond is a waste of broken hills,
but a continuous strip of cultivation follows the river
banks.
Cross Et-Tash. (Azeziyeh) Canal, 18 ft. broad, by an old
single-arched brick bridge. This canal connects with
the W. side of Lake Habbaniyeh, but is sometimes dry.
Numerous neglected irrigation cuts with or without water
are mentioned as occurring iij this part of the route,
some of which form obstacles even to light wagons.
The road, which for 2 m. from Eamadiyeh has gone
through cultivation, strikes off across level desert through
the country of the Beni Hasan tribe and some of the
Dilaim. The former are here the more numerous.
The ground becomes covered with tamarisk scrub, about
the height of gorse ; soil sandy.
Eoad reaches the river at the S. extremity of a great horse
shoe bend. The river is here ^ m. broad. The road
again leaves the river.
Abu Ray at (Khan or Sheriyet Abu Rayat).
Eoad rejoins river and rises 100 ft. over marble-like rock
at the foot of which the river flows. The road is very
rough here for carriages (1907). There are low hills on
1. bank, and the smoke of Hit bitumen pits can be seen.
Cross a ford over a
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
(
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mohammadi?) with
water up to the hocks (end of March).
From here for 2 m. track winds through a succession of
knolls, numerous side gullies running back from the
track and suitable for ambuscades. As one approaches
Hit the smell of sulphur becomes noticeable, and a dirty
- deposit of sulphur and bitumen forms on the ground.
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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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