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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [328] (337/542)
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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328
LAND KOUTES
KOUTE 18
MUSEYIB—FELLtJJEH (60 M.)
Authority:—Routes in Arabia, 1915, no. 183 f (Reporfc of November 1905).
Miles from
Muse-
yib
o
10
15
27
34i
Museyib. Start on the Baghdad road 21 a). The
road runs along the 1. bank of the Euphrates, which
is here carefully revetted for about 600 yds.
On the r. bank, which is here 6 ft. above low water, there
is a good but narrow camping-ground for ^ battalion, on
sandy soil. The river, however, is reported to rise 10 ft.
in flood.
The road crosses several canals, one of which has a strong
brick bridge. The Baghdad road diverges to r. Gardens,
walled and unwalled, of figs, dates, oranges, and pome
granates then begin on the 1. bank.
Date-gardens cease on 1. bank.
The road runs across flat, sandy country covered with
camel-thorn.
Tomb of Ibrahim el-Khalil.
Imam Khidr Iliyas, mosque on the 1. bank with a few palms
round it; some mulberry trees on the bank, which is here
steep and 10 ft. above l.w. level.
Up-stream from the mosque is a wood of tamarisk and
poplar nearly 800 yds. long and 200 yds. broad.
The best lands in this neighbourhood belonged, in 1905, to
the Da'iraf es-Samyeh. Mas'ud Arabs are found in the
neighbourhood.
Mahmudiyeh. Canal. The road crosses this by a brick
bridge in fair repair. There is no side-rail or parapet.
The breadth of the bridge roadway is 11 ft. The canal
bed is about 40 ft. deep from the top of the banks and
12 ft. wide.
The country is still flat, sandy, and featureless, with
numerous water-cuts, and covered with camel-scrub.
Tomb of Hanifeh-bin-Kadhim, with one large and one
small dome, about ^ m. E. of the track.
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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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