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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [26r] (56/530)
The record is made up of 1 volume (263 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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THE TIGEIS—EOUTE III G
47
Inter
mediate
distance
Miles
7i
' 2
H
2-1
Bight Bank.
o orge between hills and cliffs 500 ft. high, covered with
scattered thorn trees. Eapids shake the raft a good deal,
but there is no danger so long as the raft keeps in mid-stream
well away from the rocks on the banks.
Enter narrow gorge in limestone hills. This in April was
40 mins. below Kesta.
Herpisen Su, apparently about opposite Dilan.
Kapids.
Stream enters, 10 ft. wide. River bends ESE.
Hetem, village of Memmam Kurds, 50 houses (1 hr.
35 mins. below Dilan). Ferry.
Gtmdo Sheikh, village of Memmam Kurds, 25 houses
(45 mins. below Hetim).
Valley opens out to the r., and speed in April dropped to
5 m.p.h.
The breadth of the river in the gorge is not much over
100 yds.
Zewa, small village on hill to r. Island.
Jezivet -ibn-Oinar (1 hr. below Mansuriyeh). Boat-bridge
(see Route 90a, m. 109|). River 135 yds. wide; current
2^ m.p.h. (l.w.).
For the Tigris below Jezlret the main authority here fol
lowed descended the river in 1892. The journey was made in
October, when the river was lowest: a rise ot a foot is said
to make an important difference to navigation. Moreover,
the bed of the river being liable to alterations due to the
annual floods, the details as to rapids, shingle ledges, &c.,
are no longer reliable. Changes may also have occurred in
the number, position, size, or names oi villages on the banks.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume IV, Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April, 1917), covering Mesopotamia north of the line joining Rowanduz, Mosul, Meskeneh [Maskanah], and Aleppo, up to Van, Bitlis, Diarbekr, and Mar‘ash. 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.
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', and 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of contents which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- Itineraries;
- River Routes (The Tigris, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (Central Kurdistan, Routes between Mosul and Diarbekr, Routes between the Plain of Diarbekr and the Moutains to North and West, Routes between the line Diarbekr-Mardīn and the Euphrates, Interior of Norther Jezīreh, West of the Jaghjagha Su, The Euphrates Valley and Country West thereof, Across the Taurus between the Euphrates and Mar‘ash, and Aleppo-Mar‘ash);
- Railways (Aleppo-Ras el-‘Ain-Tel Ermen);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Index;
- Plates;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes'.
The volume contains 15 plates, which illustrate the content of the various chapters, and 1 map entitled 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (263 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged by numbered routes. There are pages of contents, an index, and a list of plates. There is one map house in a pocket.
- Physical characteristics
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. IV. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:262v, 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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