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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [362v] (727/862)
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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COMMUNICATIONS
566
(203) Euphrates branch at Imam Abdulla, 217 yards, decked rail
way bridge, 6-span, steel truss, concrete abutments and
piers.
(309) Shatt al Hilla (Hilla canal) at Hilla, 50 yards, 10-span, timber
trestles, with opening span. There are two alternative bridges
of similar design.
(366) Nahr Washash (Khir bridge), 50 yards, single span, steel
girders, brick abutments.
There are 23 lesser bridges (including 3 canal regulators and 1 rail
way bridge), and a number of culverts on this road.
General Description
The road keeps south of the Euphrates as far as Samawa, immedi
ately beyond which town it crosses both branches of the river; it then
keeps west of the Shatt al Hilla to the town of Hilla where it crosses
to the left bank. After passing Babylon it strikes northwards direct
for Baghdad, crossing several canals taking water from the Euphrates.
The road has a tarmac surface to Shuaiba near Zubair, but is little
more than an unsurfaced desert track, very dusty in summer and
sandy in places, between Shuaiba and Tel al Lahm. Thence to
Iskandariya road junction it has an earthen surface; the last 28 miles
have tarmac. The road is fit for heavy motors throughout in fine
weather and the culverts over irrigation channels are strongly built.
Where there is danger of flooding the road is carried on an embank
ment, especially between Samawa and Rumaitha, but heavy rain
may make it impassable for mechanical transport.
Principal Branches
[24 Hilla-Najaf.
[2 4 Hilla-Karbala.
[2 c]. Mufraq-Karbala.
Route [2 4 Hilla to Najaf (42), via Kifl (20) and Kufa (35).
A well-defined graded main road with earthen surface, embanked
above flood-areas where necessary, provided with good bridges and
culverts mostly of brick; fit for heavy motor traffic except after much
rain. There are boat-bridges at Muchatim (26) over Shatt ash
Shaura (Euphrates), 100 yards, and at Kufa (35) over Euphrates,
120 yards.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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