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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [332] (341/432)
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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LAND EOUTES
Deir ez-Zor. The struck from Deir to Sukhneh takes
about 18 to 24 hrs. going. It is regarded as dangerous,
as the traces of the route to be followed may be oblite
rated rather easily from the hard soil.
Eoute turns S. to ascend steeply to the edge of the desert-
plateau.
Reach the level of the plateau. Track runs through a
broad valley, El-Mellia (' salt spring'), in which several
wadis unite and run thence to the Euphrates.
Track emerges from the valley.
Tel Dimmeli to 1. Water has been found here in several
pools, but owing to evaporation it is salt and unsuitable
for drinking.
Cross the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Kuseiyibeh, and shortly afterwards two
other wadis.
Cross two wadis which unite on the r. of the track.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Mellia.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Ghir ; ruins of a khan on the side of a hill of the
same name to 1.
Qabr en-Nasrani. Eoute goes for about 2i hrs. at first
W. then WSW. over the gradually rising plateau.
Qishlaq of Bir Qabaqib (about 7^ hrs. from Deir). Draw-
well, a few paces from the over 65 ft. deep. The
water is bitter, but more agreeable than the sulphur-
tainted water found elsewhere, as at Sukhneh (see below,
m. 81). The qishlaq is a small building with a small
court, and shelters about twelve soldiers. The gypsum
formation which extends from the Tigris and Euphrates
ends here.
Eoute begins to descend from the plateau and crosses
a depression known as Fedat Qabaqib.
Cross the Shueib ed-Dufeini (Dufein). Cross the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dnfeini (?). To the r. of the route there is said to be
a well called Bir el-Quteibeh. in a cleft at the foot of the
Jebel el-Kutebat in which the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
begins. Track now
runs almost SW.
Bir Qabaqib disappears from view. Eoute now lies across
a broad depression; Jebel el-Murabba and Jebel el-
Heil a long way to 1.
El-Mubeifir. This place is about half-way between
Qabaqib and Sukhneh (see below). The Turkish Govern-
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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.
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- 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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