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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [46r] (96/862)
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 5 1
monthly mean of 5 6-o feet (17-07 m.), and at any time in March
April, or May it may reach 59 feet (18 m.). The highest recor e
was 61-3 feet (18-68 m.) on 3 April 1926. This flood-head commands
a vast area of country. # . j
Among his other proposals for the irrigation of Iraq made to the
Ottoman Government in 1911 Willcocks proposed to erect a barrage
across the Tigris below Kut al Imara, and a regulator across the head
of the Shatt al Gharraf, which was to be developed as a perennial
canal The scheme was revived in 1932, and both b arra g® aI ' d
regulator were begun in 1935. Before this date the Gharraf only
took water from the Tigris when the level rose to 427 feet (13-0 m.),
so that from August to November the bed was generally dry, thnug
in high flood its waters reached the Euphrates near Nasiriya (p. 3 ).
The new barrage, which was completed in 1940, is designed to hold
up the water-level to 567 feet (17-3 ™-) and to take flood-levels of
6 c;-6 feet (20 m.) when all gates are drawn (photo. 166). This permanent
head of water will cause the Gharraf to become perenma (p. 43 )•
From Kut to Amara the river is less winding than between Baghda
and Kut, and its slope is much flatter-i in 29,000 compared with
1 in 1 c 000. This fact is evidence that the present course below Kut
is younger than the course above. Irrigation, which upstream of Kut
is almost entirely by lift, now begins to be by free flow, thoug ,
excepting the Shatt al Gharraf and the Butaira channel near Amara,
none of the canals draw water during the six to nine months of lower
levels. During the flood season, however, large quantities flow o
through channels on either bank to irrigate the fields and afterwards
to form vast marshes. The most important of these marshes is the
Haur Sanniya, which in April extends almost as a continuous sheet
of water from near Shaikh Saad to Amara, with a depth varying from
2 to 8 feet. There are no towns on the river, but Shaikh Saad, A
Gharbi, and Kumait are market villages of some size prommen
during the campaign of 1916. Shaikh Saad is a sma river P°^ ’
Ali Gharbi, surrounded by date plantations, is on y 17 mi es r
the boundary near the Persian foothills. . . ,
Just upstream of Kumait a channel links the Haur Sanniya with
the Tigris, feeding the marsh in the flood season and the river from
the marsh in the low-water months. From the Haur Sanniya anoth
channel has cut a bed westwards to capture the Shatt Dujaila,
beheading the Shatt al Khidr (fig. 9). T a
Amar a is the most important town between Kut al Imara and Bas .
About 10 miles above it the first and largest of several perennial
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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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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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