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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [120] (129/542)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 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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120
EIVER ROUTES
Right Bank
Total
distance
Miles
Derbend village and mouth of Derbend Creek. This
creek is reported as turning a short distance above its
mouth to run behind the palm-belt above described. It is
said to carry water in flood-time to the Shatt el-'Arab,
which it joins at a point a short distance below the mouth
of the Suweib River on the opposite bank (see I B,
m. 42).
Above the mouth of the Derbend Creek the marshes join
the river. Course runs about W. for some distance. For
about 1 m. the only signs of cultivation are two or three
small clumps of date-trees, about 1,000 yds. from the S.
edge of the channel, which contain Behi Mansur dwellings.
Opposite Senin mounds, the date clumps become larger,
though the margin of the river is still marsh.
From the mouth of El-Howeir Creek (gee opposite) the
direction of the river up to Medineh is first SW., then
between SSW. and S., then W., NNW., and NW., thus
forming on 1. bank a kind of pocket of land called El-Khas
(see opposite). The clumps of date-trees here become a con
tinuous belt meeting and following the river bank, which
here rises again above the water, and is well defined. The
palm-belt continues, varying in depth, from this point to
above Medineh (see m. 13| below).
6i
7—
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume II, Irak, The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, May, 1917), covering the regions of the Shatt el-‘Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab], Kārūn, Luristan, and the Tigris and Euphrates up to Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallūjah]. 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', 'Abbreviations'. There is a 'Contents' which include the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (Shatt el-‘Arab, The Kārūn, The Tigris, The Euphrates, The Shatt el-Hai);
- Land Routes (The Region of the Shatt el-‘Arab, The Tigris Valley, The Region of the Lower Kārūn River of Luristan, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between the Tigris and Euphrates Valley, The Arabian Desert);
- Railways;
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note and List of Maps;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendices (A: Notes on Weather on the Tigris, B: The Control of the Tigris Water, C: The Control of the Euphrates Water, D: Oil-Fields of the Mesopotamia and Persian Frontier, E: Note on Mules);
- Index;
- Plates;
- Maps.
The volume includes eight plates that illustrate the volume. There are also three maps:
- 'Baghdad';
- 'City Map of Baghdad';
- 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged accourding to numbered routes. There is a table of contents at the front of the volume and an alphabetical index at the back. There is also a list of plates and two maps are house in a pocket and one is a foldout.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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 the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:374, 374a:374b, 375:530, 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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