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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [324] (333/432)
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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324
THE SYRIAN DESERT
ROUTE 51
HIT—EAHALlYEH (81 M.)
Authorities : —Miss G. Bell, Amurath to Amurath, journey in 1909 ; Routes in Arabia
Eoute 194, native information, 1909.
This is a desert track. No supplies are obtainable, and drinking-
water is scanty, except at Eaballyeh, Here supplies are normally
obtainable in small quantities, and some live stock is kept. Here also
is a plentiful supply of water from a spring. The water is warm and
slightly salt in taste, and may not be wholesome. The fuel-supply
at Rahallyeh is good.
M iles from
Hit
0 Hit. For the stage between Hit and Temail the following
points have been mentioned, but it is possible that they
do not lie in the most direct line between these places.
The distances to Asiblyeh are estimated from the report of
the traveller who went over the ground in 1909. Native
information gives a total distance of 78 m. with distances
as follows— Temail 33 m., Asileh 52 m., Asibiyeh
63 m., Haha-liyeh 78 m.
Ain el-'Usfuriyeh, a tiny mound with a spring of water,
sulphurous but just drinkable. There is a pitch well
about 3 m. SE.
Jelib esh-SheikK. several pools in an outcrop of rock,
which are sufficiently sweet to drink.
J ust beyond these pools the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mohammadi is crossed,
which stretches W. to the Gharat el -Jemal and E. to
the Euphrates. The
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
was dry and encrusted with
sulphur in 1909.
Tel, from the top of which the landmarks of Abu Qlr,
two high mounds of stones, are sighted.
17
20
27
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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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