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'Routes in Arabia' [615] (648/852)
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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(1,961 feet).
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(1,834 feet).
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186-5
Stone station building and one loop siding of 250 yarcte
Building? are of better construction than on the Damas-
cus -Dera'a section, where they are low, flat-roofed
and with inferior accommodation.
Country well cultivated. Nasib, 150 houses, is on a knoll
one mile to west.
Some small culverts cover stony ravines. Undulating
country ; some cultivation ; good grazing in spring.
Stone station buildings and loop siding of 250 yards. Pil
grim route passes close to west. Qal at-al-Mafrak, a
ruined castle with large stone reservoir, which usually
contains water, situated on knoll cloa* by, and used
as a defence and store for food of pilgrims.
Windmill pump brings water to tank at station. Bam
Sakhr Arabs usually found here.
Line proceeds over open, undulating country ; some rock
cuttings, 15 feet deep.
Stone station buildings, one loop siding. Some grazing in
LineSends towards
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Zarqa, following a wide valley
with stream containing water only in spring, ihis is
the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
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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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/3
- 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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- Open Government Licence