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'Field notes: Mesopotamia. General Staff, India. February, 1917.' [112v] (231/350)
The record is made up of 1 file (169 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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Route No. 23— contd.
by brick culverts giving passage to floods that cross the line
of the road here in wet weather. The top of the embankment
is about 15 feet above the surrounding country, and where it
leads on to the Kharr bridge it attains its maximum breadth,
45 feet.
The ends of the bridge are 2 stone piers, 16 feet broad and
6 feet long, projecting from either bank; the central portion
consists of a single iron girder 171 feet long, carrying a metalled
■roadway 9 feet wide. In April, when the water in the Kharr
stream is 10 feet deep, the height of the roadway above the water
is 12 feet. At the south end of the bridge, on the east side of
the road, is a 2-storeyed brick house, behind which are about 20
mud huts.
After crossing the Kharr bridge the road trends to the south,
separating from the bridge embankments which continues west
ward for about 2 miles and ends in the desert. Near mile 5
the road strikes a bend of the Tigris, but again immediately
leaves it.
At mile 6, Khan-al-Kharabah, a ruined caravansarai, is
passed on the east of the road.
Aboyt mile 10 there is marshy ground, sometimes dry, on
both sides of the road. Beyond this as far as Mahmudiyah the
country traversed is dry desert.
At mile 13, there is another desert caravansarai, Khan
Azad, on the west side of the road.
As Mahmudiyah is entered the canal of the same name
from the Euphrates is crossed; the canal is here 27 feet broad
and 4 feet deep, and the bridge over it is 18 feet wide and has a
«mall arch of 6 feet span in the middle. A little higher up the
canal is only 10 feet broad.
Mahmudiyah, an increasing town on the south bank of the
canal of the same name, with 150 houses, a dozen shops, 11
khans, and about 1,000 souls. These khans are mostly defen
sible, one of them being partly loopholed and provided with
circular towers at the four corners; in the aggregate they
would provide accommodation for about 1,000 men and the
same number of animals.
The canal flows for 8 or 9 months in the year, and irrigates
•fields of wheat, barley and millet.
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The file consists of a printed volume regarding the field notes on Mesopotamia. The volume was prepared on behalf of the General Staff, India and printed by the Superintendent Government Printing, India.
The volume is divided into the following chapters:
- I. History.
- II. Geography.
- III. Population.
- IV. Resources.
- V. Notes on the Turkish Army.
- VI. Maritime.
- VII. Administration.
- VIII Communications; Routes in Mesopotamia.
The volume also contains a number of appendices: A. Important personages; B. Table of Distances (in miles); C. Weights, Measures, Currency, Chronology; D. Some notes for officers proceeding to Mesopotamia; Glossary of Terms.
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- 1 file (169 folios)
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The volume is arranged in a number of chapters and appendices listed in the contents page (folio 4).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 169; 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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