"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد III. ١٩١٧" [‎٤‎٥] (٤٣٢/٥٤)

THE TIGRIS—ROUTE HIE
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traces of a circular wall at about 110 paces distance.
A raised causeway runs from this a little E. of N. to
a point about m. distant.
A short distance to the SE. of this is the dry bed of
the Nahr Nahrawan (here called Nalir er-Rasasi), which
has run to this point in a general WNW. direction from Tel
Mahasil (see Boute III D, m. 60|), bends NNE., and seems to
be traceable, running roughly parallel with the river, at a
distance varying from 3 to m. for some miles.
Hawa-i-Sullat settlement: 20 houses of A1 Bu Abbas.
Bisat village in trees : 25 houses of Samarra Arabs.
Qafas Shiuas : large tent-settlement of A1 Bu Abbas,
a short way above Bisat. Here is a large enclosure, sur
rounded by the remains of walls and towers of sun-dried
brick, in a very ruinous condition.
A few hundred yards to the N. of this ruin lies another,
of oblong shape, nearly ^ m. across, with a walled triangle
to the N., in which is a small square enclosure near the
river.
Mouth of Wadi Abu'l Aswad, a water-course from the
Hamrln Hills, lies in this neighbourhood. This wadi
is dry in summer : at other times it brings water from the
hills to the Tigris. There is said to be much spring pasturage
in its neighbourhood.
Ruin-heaps of a quarter of old Samarra, marked on maps
as Eski Baghdad. This name is apparently applied locally
to the whole group of ruin-fields from modern Samarra to
Abu Delef (see m. 11-|).
The 1. bank here is of conglomerate and elevated, with
numerous water-lifts.
Sinn Yehudiyeh, a bluff, intersected by a small ravine
leading from the high plain to the river. There are several
more similar ravines to the N.
Here also is a mouth of a minor arm of Tigris, with islands
and shoals. This arm runs generally NNW. for about T 3-| m.
from the point where it leaves main stream. Along its 1. bank.