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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [182v] (369/530)
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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360
LAND EOUTES
Miles from
Mardin
20
27
39
44
47^
48
49
52
56
Cross the Zirgan Su near the ruins of an old bridge. Track
now leaves the river and strikes across the desert.
Pass Hei Shehri mound and ruins.
Pass a large mound in a valley.
Cross a jirjih or stream dry at certain seasons, the Jirjib
esh-Shammar. The authority of 1903 found this stream
20 ft. wide, 1-| ft. deep, current m.p.h.; banks 20 ft.
high and steep; passage difficult for wheels; ramping
would be needed, and in wet weather passage might be
impossible. Euins of an old bridge, of which only the
foundations are visible.
Track now leads over a slight elevation.
Hereabouts track from Derek 127) joins on r.
Regain the level plain.
Pass close to some large mounds and ruins. Gradual descent.
Cross the Jirjib el-Humur; shelving banks, stony bed, no
obstacle: strong stream when in flood.
Has el-'Ain. Railway: see p. 417. Circassian village:
Armenian deportees (1915). Ample water-supply. The
source of the Khabtir (in a wood of poplars) is warm and
slightly sulphurous.
Alternative Route
The authority whose route is detailed below appears to have kept
for the most part E. (and later S.) of the route described above. It
does not cross the Zirgan Su till a point much nearer to Eas el-'Ain.
The route, once clear of the Mardin hills, follows an unmetalled cart-
track through open country : open ground is available for camping,
and plenty of water and grass is found along the Zirgan Su (the
season is not stated). Water is also to be found not far from the
surface by digging in easy soil. Some few supplies are obtainable
as far as m. 20 ; none thereafter.
Miles from
Mardin
0 Mardin. Descend by a zigzag cobbled track, impassable
for carts.
Eeach the plain, some 1,500 ft. lower than Mardin.
Gil Haren, large village, on 1. Wells.
Tel Padeh village, on 1. Wells water 50 ft. from surface.
Muzzili on r.
Teshirez, 40 houses, on 1,
Tel Ermen is said to be here 3 m. to r. (see under m. 18).
6
9
13
14
17
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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'.
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- 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.
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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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