'Routes in Arabia' [787] (818/852)
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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787
R oute N o . 202— contd.
tease, at the time of our visit, by Anwar Baig, one of the Haidari-
zadah family of Baghdad.
Here we met the first grain^purehasing boats of the season
coming up the river from Baghdad ; they were running before
& fair wind which greatly retarded our own progress.
At 37 minutes after leaving Sindiyah we were in a reach called,
on the right bank, Tuwair. Nine minutes later we passed a ferry
of one qu, Jah.
At 1 hour 11 minutes, detached date groves beloging to
Sa'diyah village began on the left bank. It is at Sa'diyah,
written by the Germans Saidije, that the KhSnaqin branch of the
Baghdad Railway is intended to cross the Tigris ; the name is
therefore likely to become better known. At 1 hour 34 minutes
we pass Sa'diyah itself ; it is on the left bank and consists of about
100 houses of Arabs, Shi'ahs, as are all the inhabitants of the
Khalis tract, or that watered from the right bank of the Diyalah.
Behind Sa'diyah are date groves, and just below it is a tomb
said to be that of the Banat-al-Hasan.
At 2 hours 10 minutes we pass the pump of Haji 'Umr, in
a reach styled (on the right bank) Shaikh Jamil.
At 2 hours 40 minutes a tract called TSrmlyah begins on tho
right bank ; it is marked by the end (head or tail) of a high silted-
up canal which has been cut away by the river; this landmark
is called Ishan Tarmlyah-
At 3 hours we are said to be opposite Mansarlyah on the left
bank, but the village is hidden by date plantations. It consists of
200 houses of Shi'ahs. Below it is a tomb, said to be that of the
Bani-al-'Abbas.
At 3 hours 6 minutes we pass the head of the Tarmlyah canal
on the right bank. It is above the present level of the river, and
we are told that water now very seldom passes into it. The
width of the river here is 400 to 500 yards. Just below Tarmlyah
are signs of the head of an embankment, or possibly another
canal, having been cut away by the river.
At 3 hoiirs 56 minutes the river is more than usually broad;
the breadth seems about 600 yards.
At 4 hours 10 minutes we reached the end of the reach called
Tarmlyah on the right and Mansuriyah on the left bank. A
strong wind from the south-south-west now drove our raft on t®
the left bank, and for more than an hour we could not move.
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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.
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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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