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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [356] (365/542)
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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366
LAND EOUTES
Miles from
Baghdad
79
79i
79i
84i
89
89i
901
974
Kifl. Surrounded by water in dry season; large sailing-
boats come right up to village.
On leaving Kifl road goes through marshy country, with
some cultivation and fine grazing. Frequent grass huts
and square forts of Beni Hasan Arabs on the r. to within
about 12 m. of Nejef.
Cross canal, 22 ft. wide, 4ft. deep (autumn, 1903), by dam.
Cross Hindiyeh Channel by ferry-boat. Channel (autumn,
1903) 240 yds. wide, 3-8 ft. deep; current 2 m.p.h.
Eoad goes along r. bank of Hindiyeh Channel about
9-10 m. through fertile cultivated land and_pasture.
In this neighbourhood lies the village of'Amran, which the
road passes about ^ m, to E.
In this neighbourhood the road turns W. for ^ m., leaving
the bank of the Hindiyeh.
Shatt el-Mulla is crossed, here running 50 yds. wide and
2 ft. deep (autumn, 1903). The canal here has easy
sloping banks. Road again trends southerly. Marsh to
1. apparently passed.
The Si'adeli (ATbu Ruyeh?) Canal, empty and broken, is
crossed without difficulty.
The country becomes desert.
Nejef.
Note .—When the route is followed from Nejef to Kifl, the minaret
of Kifl comes into sight soon after leaving Nejef, and Khan
Mosalla on the Kerbela—Nejef road becomes visible to westwards
soon after the r. bank of the Hindiyeh is reached.
ROUTE 22
BAGHDAD—FELLUJEH (43^ M.)
A iitkorilies:— Field Notes on Mesopotamia, 1915; 1904;
Bury, Report on Baghdad — Aleppo Road, 1907; and other sources of information.
This is a good though unmetalled driving-road, presenting no
difficulties in dry weather, though the sand and sandy clay is in
places rather heavy. In wet weather the going is probably heavy
throughout. In spring the 10 or 11 miles between Baghdad and
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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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