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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [306] (315/432)
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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306
LAND EOUTES
(C)
Account of a ride from Anah to Baghdad, autumn 1908. See
above. Total travelling time, 81| hrs. The times given below
are said to be for travelling on horseback at moderate speed.
Apparently this would make the total distance about 240 m.
On the map the distance in a straight line from Baghdad to Hit is
160 m. The difference is perhaps accounted for by the necessity
of going by wells, and by the Arab habit of marching not by
compass but from landmark to landmark. But in view of the
uncertainty as to rate of progress, &c., no attempt has been made to
give an estimate of the miles from point to point. Times are given
in the margin. The places mentioned between the point opposite
Anah and Kazimain are not villages, as these do not exist in this
region. They are merely localities in the desert known to native
guides.
Hours
0
1
2
11
-L o
n
10|
m
17
An ah. Cross the river [shaMitu ferry) to the 1. bank.
Land on 1. bank near minaret called El-Khedimeh.
Hence a road over a level plain of small pebbles and
gravel (but see (A) above) leads to
Has Abu Tor. Level plain of small pebbles crossed to
Mutaridat. Level plain of pebbles stretches as far as
Mufrak el-Dorub.
Murkub el-Paris.
Garaa Umm el-Knbar.
Mufrak ed-Dorub. Level plain. Hard borax ground
with pebbles.
Tcqqaqeh. Level plain with small pebbles.
Bias Auuab.
Habib en-Najjar. There is a ditch here along which a
carriage could travel with ease, the ground being hard.
Between Habib en-Najjar and Nokheileh are two ravines,
one of which can be easily crossed. At the other is
broken ground extending for a distance of about ^ hr.:
this can only be crossed at low speed.
NoMieileh. There is a spring here, the water of which is
brackish and rather stagnant. Eoute now crosses a
level plain of borax ground.
G-hobeini. Level plain of hard borax ground.
Mustafej. Route crosses level plain on which is a well of
brackish stagnant water.
Dellayeh. Level plain; hard dry 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)
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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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