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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1479] (552/688)
The record is made up of 1 volume (341 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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QASIM
1479
and twc
Qe te
Name.
Muraid Saiyid
Nabhanivah
Position.
Nabqiyall
Kafi ..
Naqib
Qara'ah
5 miles west-south
west of Buraidah.
About 20 miles west
or west-north-west
of Rass.
About 25 miles north
east of Buraidah.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
100 houses, said to
be of Mutair, Harb
and 'Anizah.
40 houses of Harb
3 miles south of Haid
6 miles north-north
east of Buraidah.
14 miles west-north
west of Buraidah,
under Jabal Sarah
on its south side.
30 houses of mixed
Arabs.
30 houses of 'Ataibah
No permanent habi
tations.
100 houses of mixed
Arabs.
Remarks.
There are large date
groves and much
lucerne is grown
beteween the palms.
The wells are 8 fath
oms deep.
There are a nu mber of
date groves and corn is
grown. The wells are
10 fathoms deep and
the water is sweet.
Harb Bedoiuns some
times camp near by.
This village is on the
route from Rass to
Madinah.
Date palms are scattered
and only number 300 or
400. Cereals, melons
and vegetables are
cultivated. Irrigation
is from wells 9 or 10
fathoms deep ; the
water is good. Under
Buraidah.
No dates.
Buraidah.
Under
Desultory cultivation
by agriculturists from
Buraidah.
The village is in two
parts, the smaller called
Qasr-al-Hawaiti is a
mile north of the other.
There are dates,
fruit trees, grain and
vegetables, all irrigated
from wells of brackish
but drinkable water
which are 13 to 14
fathoms deep. About
2 miles from Qara'ah
is a lake, about 1 mile
in extent, which some
times dries up leaving
a thick deposit of salt.
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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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- 1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 975:1092, 1092a:1092f, 1093:1110, 1110a:1110f, 1111:1328, 1328a:1328f, 1329:1386, 1386a:1386f, 1387:1446, 1446a:1446f, 1447:1448, 1448a:1448f, 1449:1542, 1542a:1542f, 1543:1600, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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