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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [98v] (201/862)
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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124 GEOLOGY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND
water-holes at Shabicha and Salman, which are of this type, are
exceptional and will accommodate about 800 tents for most of the
summer.
(3) Casual watering-places. There are numerous forms of rain
water catchments embraced by the term ghadir (plur. ghadran).
{a) Khabra (plur. khabari). Where rainfall collects in a normal
year in many grassy depressions of the Southern Desert, especially
A 1 Hajara, regular watering-places are formed. Water in varying
amounts is found in such khabari from mid-November to March,
and in the largest until May or early June, but they are entirely
dependent on the rainfall.
{b) Thaqab (plur. thaqban). Narrow clefts in the bed of a
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
or
shaib, some of them 100 yards long, 8 to 10 feet wide, and 5 feet deep,
are known as thaqban. They are almost invariably surrounded by sidr
bushes.
(c) Barbak (plur. barabik, barabich): a pool formed in a loamy
hollow.
(d) Jalt, jalta (plur. ajlat): a pool formed in a rock basin or fissure,
usually on elevated ground; but the term is also applied to pools left
in the rocky bed of a
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
after flood water (sail) has passed, and
occasionally to pools formed in rocky beds where stones have been
piled to form a catchment. The essential feature is rock.
(e) Birka (plur. burak, burach): a masonry tank, artificially con
structed. They are extremely rare, except along the Darb Zubaida.
Many are now in bad repair and disused along the northern section
of this route, though some still hold water after rain (p. 579).
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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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- 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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