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'Routes in Arabia' [279] (312/852)
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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279
Route No. 7G— condd.
The
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mi'aidiu running north to south is entered, down
which flow three small but perennial streams, fed by springs
issuing from crevices in the rocks. Brushwood is plentiful in the
valley. After a short distance the village of Musairah (200
houses) is reached where there is a small date plantation at
an unusual elevation. Further on is the village of Mi aiclin
(30 houses) watered from 2 falajt, giving a plentiful supply
of water ; there are date, lime and other fruit trees. 1 hree
miles further on is Misfah (40 houses), a small hamlet. Up
to this point the breadth of the undi is nowhere more than 100
yards, and in places it is overhung by cliffs 2,000 3,000 feet
high, but after passing Misfah the banks begin to recede and to
decrease in height. After about 5 miles the lohii emerges
the hills, and enters a spacious plain. 1 he route turns to the
east, and after a short distance a stone-built two -storeyed castle.
Bait Rudaidah, is reached. The route then skirts a low conical
hill, capped by a watch-tower which protects the watei-supply o
Birkat-al-Moz, round the other side of the hill.
ROUTE No. 77.
From MAHOT to MANAH.
175 miles. 77 ^ges,
Aiithorifies.—lAentemTit J. R. Wellsted, Indian Navy,
December 1838.
Lieutenant-Colonel S. R. Miles, December
1885.
Persian Griilf Gazetteer, 1908.
Epitome.
General Description. —This is a camel caravan route which
follows the bed of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Halfain and its . tributary Wad
Kalbuh, as far as Adam, stage 9. Very little is known of stage
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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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- 'Routes in Arabia'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:18, 1:644, 647:816, v-r:v-v, 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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