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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [53v] (111/862)
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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62 GEOLOGY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND
in spring and early summer, but as the heat increases the ground
becomes parched, dry, and uninhabited.
The Hammar Lake (Hor al Hammar) is a vast expanse of shallow
water nearly 70 miles long and varying from 8 to 10 miles wide in the
Fig. 16. The Region of the Lower Delta Lands
Areas generally under water are shown by continuous parallel lines; those liable to
seasonal flood by broken lines. Cultivated areas, including fallow land but excluding the
palm-belts along the Shatt al Arab below Qurna, are shown stippled. These remarks
apply also to figs. 18, 19, 20, 21. For details of the channels see figs. 9, 10.
low-water season. It extends from about 10 miles east of Suq ash
Shuyukh on the ‘tail’ of the Euphrates almost to Basra, and is fed by
the Euphrates and by several channels which drain the marshes of the
Shatt al Gharraf and those on the right bank of the Tigris below
Amara. In the south the lake is now restricted by the railway embank
ment from Basra and almost the sole outlet is at Qarmat Ali, immedi
ately north-west of the new Basra air-port at Maqil. The shores of the
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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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