"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد III. ١٩١٧" [‎١‎٤‎٥] (٤٣٢/١٥٤)

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Baghdad
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29
31
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KOUTE 25 a
145
Dokheileh, among date gardens, between the walls of which
the road passes. Ground to r. very marshy for 2 m.
Skirt the Tigris a short way to 1. The bank is heavily
dyked by an embankment, 15 ft. wide at top, 20 ft. high,
and 40 ft. at the base, revetted with brushwood. Con
tinue along dykes, cross and skirt a canal. Low
tamarisk jungle fringes the river. Several small
villages are dotted over the plain to E., each with date
gardens. The Mamudiyeh and Nahr Khalis canals
from the Diyaleh traverse the plain which stretches
eastward to the Diyaleh.
Leave the dykes, which here become lower, and trend
half-right over cultivated and rather boggy plain.
Pass Jeizani Saghir, with a large grove of palm-trees.
Jeizani Kebir is 4 m. to E.
Cross some water-channels. There are several tracks across
a cultivated plain, low and boggy with a few water-
channels intersecting it.
Zedaideh, 300 houses, hidden in date-groves, with khan.
Khan Nahrawan. Eoute turns NE. A short distance
beyond Nahrawan village is the bed of the old Nahrawan
Canal, 60 yds. wide, 10 ft. deep, in which excellent
grazing is to be found in spring. (Most of the maps
seem to make the distance up to this point about 40 m.,
but it is not known on what authority.)
Desert route to Tuz Khurmatli and Kirkuk diverges to N. leading
ma Qarfeli (21 m, ?), the Band-i- c Adheim on the 'Adheim
River (46 m. ?) through the Hamrln Hills by the Demir Qapu
defile, and thence by r. bank of e Adheim River to Tuz Klmrmatli
(73 m. ?), whence the main Baghdad—Mosul route is followed
to Kirkuk (see below, m. 142i). Supplies and water between
Nahrawan and Tuz Khurmatli are deficient, the country bein^
mainly desert. Qarfeh is a small village lying near some salt
pools. There appears to bo no permanently inhabited place
between Qarfeh and Mufti Khan at the S. end of the Demir
Qapu valley.
Route passes through cultivation, interspersed with thorn
bushes.
Cross an irrigation channel, 5 ft. wide by 4 ft. deep.
Cross another canal, 90 yds. wide by 15 ft. deep, partly
grass-grown, and with water-channel in the bed, 8 ft,
wide and 6 ft. deep, with steep sides.
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