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'Field notes: Mesopotamia. General Staff, India. February, 1917.' [118v] (243/350)
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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228
Route No. 26 — concld.
Fairly easy mule track.
coming right down to Baghdad.
Supplies and water are plentiful.
Route No. 27.
Routes between the SHATT-AL-HAJ and the
TIGRIS.
Authorities :^ lriiorro.atioT\ supplied by H. Dobbs r
Esq., C.I.E., Lieutenant Cbristian; Arab reports.
1 General. —The difficulties of all these routes are the same,
viz .:—
(a) Large extent of waterless desert.
(b) Absence of landmarks or any definite tracks rendering
the march of a column in waterless country dependent
on guides and on compass bearings and distances
taken off maps of questionable accuracy.
(c) Marsh near the right bank of the Tigris in the wet season
probably rendering all routes impassable.
As a result of the reports of agents sent out for the pur
pose, it transpires that there is no land route worthy of con
sideration downstream of Kumait. Special attention has been
devoted by agents to finding a possible through water route.
In every case, however, it has been found necessary to go
down to' the Hammar Lake and up the Bada’ah.
2. Water is from the Tigris right bank inundation and
from wells in the Dujailah area.
The best points on the Tigris from which to cross this innun-
dation area in dry season (it is doubtful whether any of
these routes would be passable in the wet season) are :
(i) ’Ali Gharbi.
(ft) Kumait.
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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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