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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [138] (147/542)
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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138
RIVER ROUTES
Right Bank
Details from Kharmsiyeh (times taken by hellam poled by two
men. The authority estimates the speed of the hellam at 5 m.p.h.) :
Hours.
0
1
n
2
8
Khamlslyeh. Direction N., channel 6yds. broad. Open
desert on either side.
Direction NW. Marshland and high reeds on both sides.
Village on island to E.
Direction E. Water-channel branches to W.
Large piece of open water, with channel debouching
N. and S.
Direction N., channel 6 yds. broad.
Open desert to W., marsh to E. Channel narrows to
3 yds., and ends in village of reed huts.
By narrow path through gardens to Suq esh-Slmyukh.
Upper end of Suq esh-Shuyukh. Channel turns N,
Average width 175 yds. Palm-groves on both banks.
(iii) Suq esh-Shuyukh—Nasiriyeh.
The distances between and relative positions of the places
here mentioned are very uncertain.
The average width of the river is 150-200 yds., with
ample depth at all seasons. Current, 2f-3 knots. Creeks,
with the exception of the Ma Sha'lreh (see below, m. 5), are
used merely for irrigation purposes. River steamers can
moor alongside the banks at most places. The 1. bank
has palm-groves and low-walled enclosures, with scattered
villages almost throughout its whole length. The date-
groves vary from 150 to 250 yds. in depth, are protected
from flooding by sudd, and are intersected by numerous
small irrigation ditches, which are, however, passable for
infantry and mules. Behind the date-groves are marshes.
The r. bank is similar to the 1. for the first 13 m. and for
the 3^ m. before Nasirlyeh. The intervening portion is taken
up with marsh and cultivation.
Suq esh-Shuyukh.
Direction of channel is somewhat E. of N.
Direction of channel changes to WNW.
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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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- '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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