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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [56r] (116/530)
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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track, although laden horses get along it. The stream
is 25-30 yds. wide, flowing swiftly. The scarp on the
1. bank is sheer, nowhere supporting even a foot-
track.-
Abrupt ascent leads over a low neck to the valley of the
Yahudi Chai. The river is reached and apparently crossed
just above the pathless chasm through which it runs to
join the JKudbar-i-Shln. Track leads along 1. bank high
up above the stream.
Henjbraka.
Pass Jemajehu (alt. 3,500 ft.), across the valley on r. bank.
The stream is crossed several times as the track ascends a
gorge, narrow in the lower part and gradually becoming
more open.
Hamlet near some rock-chambers ; scattered houses
become numerous.
Pir Hasan. Beyond this the stream makes a deep bend
to E., and an easy ascent leads to the top of a spur from
which a fairly easy descent leads to the
N. boundary of the Ileikan' nahiye.
Nerva (alt. 4,050 ft.). The stream is met again. From
Nerva the road ascends steeply by a fairly easy
track.
Tutun Yaila (alt. 6,000 ft.), descends by an easy track to
a rill, which is followed until it meets a larger stream
from N. which it descends for 1 m. to
Eiri. Some distance below this the valley narrows to a rift
6 to 8 ft. wide : track here consists of steps cut in the rock.
Track again meets the Eudbar-i-Shln and follows its r. bank
for 1^ m. to Bliatunis, descends to the stream by a short
length of stone staircase, and crosses it by a wicker-
bridge, the water, 20 yds. broad in September, being
a deep powerful torrent.
From the bridge the route descends the 1. bank for a short
distance and then turns up the valley of a small water
course to NE., crosses its watershed, descends to the
headwaters of an other stream, ascends steeply, rounds the
head of a valley and descends by a steep but fairly broad
track, with rock-cut steps at intervals, to a brook, from
which an ascent, which gradually becomes steep, leads to
Oramar.
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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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