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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [370v] (743/862)
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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57 6
COMMUNICATIONS
Route [12]. Mosul-Bir Ugla
(Nusaybin Road)
Distance, 60 miles.
General Description
The road is unmetalled but graded; bridges, culverts, and cause
ways have been built where required and the road is passable for
heavy motors between mid-April and mid-November; but the mud
surface, usually baked hard, becomes easily churned up and impass
able during rain and for 72 hours afterwards. There are no major
bridges. The road continues across north-east Syria to Nusaybin in
Turkey, crossing into Syria 2^ miles beyond Bir Ugla.
Route [13]. Mosul-Syrian Frontier
(Sinjar Road)
Distances in Miles
(40) Tel Afar. (76) Balad Sinjar. (112) Syrian frontier.
General Description
This road was expected to be finished as an all-weather metalled
road by the end of 1943. There were at least 26 small bridges over
ravine beds and wadis. In Syria the road continues to the Khabur
river which it crosses at the Chadaddi bridge and then branches for
the Deir ez Zor and Rakka bridges over the Euphrates. It is expected
to become a main link between northern Syria and northern Iraq,
and will supersede the old desert track from Mosul to A 1 Badi farther
south which was waterless in fine weather over long stretches, and
liable to be waterlogged and impassable after rain.
Route [14]. Kirkuk-
Transjordan
Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan
(Pipe-line Road via Haditha)
Distances in Miles
(67) Baiji. (162) Haditha I.P.C, (222) Hi. (280) H 2. ( 3 io)Rutba.
(3SO) H 3. (394) L.G. XIII.
Bridges and Ferries
(57) Tigris at Fat-ha. (a) Aerial cable-way (5 tons); (b) I.P.C.
motor-ferry (8 tons); (c) Public boat-ferry (8 tons).
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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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- Open Government Licence