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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [30r] (64/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND
29
feet above sea-level in September, begins to dissipate its waters. A
cut on the right bank leads to the Habbaniya depression, which con
tains a sheet of slightly saline water at about 140 feet above sea-level,
separated from the river by the Asibi and Zaban ridges 130 feet higher
Fig. 6 . The Habbaniya Escape and the heads of the Saqlawiya Canal
{old Nahr Isa). A. Course of the Euphrates in 1838; B. Anbar Channel of the
Nahr Isa; C. Midhat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
's Dam; D. Sirri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
's Dam; E. British Bund;
F. Modern Regulator. Contours at 50 feet approximately; ground over 200
feet stippled. The new motor road is shown by a heavy line.
(fig. 6). It seems to have been used to take the high flood of the
Euphrates in ancient times, and at the outbreak of the War of 1914-
18 a new cut was being made to improve its capacity; but the pro
ject for converting the lake into a reservoir, with a regulated return
channel—the ‘Dhiban (Zaban) Cut’—for feeding the Euphrates at
low water, was not carried out (p. 438). The Habbaniya lake still
acts as a safety valve, but the embankment to the escape channel is
only cut at periods when upstream gauges indicate the arrival of
dangerous flood. The Majora escape takes surplus waters from the
Habbaniya lake southwards into the Jira depression (Bahr al Milh)
and so prevents excessive flooding in the north.
In the low ground by the river north-east of the lake is the R.A.F.
Cantonment of Habbaniya, with its bungalows, hospital, wireless
station, and airfield, where the small British garrison was attacked
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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