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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [188] (197/542)
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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188
LAND KOUTES
mediateThis one is nearer to the Shatt el-'Arab than the main
route, and it is shaded throughout by date-groves, but its course
is winding, and it is poorly provided with bridges, many of the
numerous creeks and deep irrigation trenches encountered being
spanned only by a single date-log or crossed by means of ferry-boats.
(ii) A third track, known as Hadar or 'Lower', runs between
Wasti and the river bank, and appears to be the most difficult and
discontinuous of the three.
Each village stands on a creek generally providing good and
plentiful water. There are no wells, but water is always easy to
obtain from the creeks or the river. The banks would generally
require to be ramped to enable animals to get to the water's edge.
Near the sea, water should be taken with the falling tide, especially
when the river is low.
There is much dry date-palm wood for fuel. Plenty of short grass
inside the date plantations for fodder. Lucerne and barley are exten-.
sively grown, and, in places, rice. Outside the date plantations there
is no grazing except in spring for sheep. Large quantities of dates,
and a little straw and barley at hamlets. Meat generally abundant;
fair supply of milk. A few donkeys and indifferent horses in many
hamlets. A considerable number of boats could be collected.
Miles from
Pao
0
6
Pao. For description see Route I A, m.
The route leaves Pao in a general NN W. direction, striking
away from the river through date-groves to the desert.
From near the fort, 4 m. below the telegraph station
at Fao, to Ma c amir, about 6 m. above it, a new embank
ment has been made to keep out the salt water which
floods the desert to the W. Horses and men can go
along the top of this embankment, but wheeled transport
would have to keep to the W. side of it on desert soil,
and this is generally bad going for wheels, as it is at
this point a salt mud-flat which never dries and is flooded
at high tides.
Ma amir tract. In this region and in the Dawasir district
(see m. 18 below) there are numerous empty villages about
400 yds. from the date-groves. Their defensible village-
walls still remain. They are 90-100 yds. square.
Ma* amir, Sheikh Naghaimish's village. Track is now over
dry, hard desert, except in wet weather, and after high
tide in spring when the river is in flood: it is then
very boggy. The route runs just behind the date-groves.
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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'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:374, 374a:374b, 375:530, back-i
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