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'Routes in Arabia' [5] (38/852)
The record is made up of 1 volume (425 folios). It was created in 1915. 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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Route No. 1— concld.
Kerbela is a town of about 50,000 permanent inhabitants
and has in addition a large floating population. The old town is
surrounded on three sides by a wall from 20 to 30 feet high,
with towers at intervals, but the work is in bad repair. There
are two tiers of loopholes ; perimeter of wall, about 2 miles ;
5 gates. Large agricultural and garden produce, considerable
quantities of dates. Large and well-stocked hazdr, and some 20
shops dealing in European wares. Kerbela not a good centre for
collection of supplies or transport. No mules ; and camels only
procurable in the autumn when the Bedouins come in. There is
a flour-mill driven by an oil-engine ; 2 ice-making plants. Water
from Husainlyah canal, or when it is dry, from 20 to 25 wells
sunk mostly in the canal bed. Garrison consists of about 2-40
Turkish soldiers, and there are about 100 Zaptiehs generally
present as well. Telegraph Office and Post Office. Kerbela is
also known as Mashhad Husain.
ROUTE No. 2.
- F rom BAGHDAD to HILLA.
G2 miles. 4 stages.
Authorities. —Major Newmarch, March, 1905.
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.
Epitome.
General Description. —A road, unmade but fit for driving,
along which public conveyances ply daily. Beyond the point
where this road separates from the Kerbela road the track is
not so well marked. Its character as far as Babylon (mile 56)
resembles that of the Kerbela route up to Museyib, for the
country crossed is, apart from a few minor canals and some
sporadic cultivation, merely a dry desert of clay. Prom Baby
lon onwards it runs through cultivated country and along the
edge of vast date plantations. A double line of telegraph ac
companies the road the whole way from Baghdad to Hilla,
Water, —Plentiful from canals and water-holes,
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This volume contains descriptions of the 'more important of the known routes in Arabia proper' produced by the General Staff in Simla, India. It is divided up as follows:
Part I - Routes in North-Eastern, Eastern, and Southern Arabia.
Part II - Routes in South-Western, Western, and North-Western Arabia.
Part III - Miscellaneous Routes in Mesopotamia.
Appendix A - Information about Routes etc in the Rowanduz District by Abdullah Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Hereditary Chief of Rowanduz and ex-official of the Turkish Government.
Appendix B - Information relating to Navigation etc of the Tigris between Mosul and Baghdad supplied by our Raftsmen.
The volume contains a Glossary of Arabic Terms used in the route descriptions and a map of Arabia with the routes marked on it.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (425 folios)
- Arrangement
Divided into three sections as outlined in the scope and content.
The file contains a contents page that lists all of the routes included on folios 6-13 and uses the original printed pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: A bound, printed volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; 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 each folio. Please note that f 424 is housed inside f 425.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Routes in Arabia'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:18, 1:644, 647:816, v-r:v-v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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