"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد IV .١٩١٧" [ظ‎‎١‎٢‎٣] (٥٣٠/٢٥١)

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LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Amadi-
yell
56|
581
60|
61|
64i
67|
72A
72|
75|
77i
77|
80|?
Open undulating ground. Gentle descent to
Small stream. Gradual ascent up a cultivated, trough-like
valley : turning to r. cross a low, bare, stony ridge, and
descend steeply to
L. bank of the Khabur, near three-arched stone bridge.
Thence along level river-bank.
Zakho (alt. 1,400 ft.). Follow a broad, gravelly track about
^ m. from 1. bank of Khabur.
Eedar, 100 Nestorian houses, on the river A m. to r.
Skirt a line of gravelly hills, the outliers of the Jebel
Abyadh. Several springs in the hills. The water is
used for irrigation lower down. The summit ridge of
the Jebel Abyadh appears from here to be composed
of impassable vertical sheets of limestone.
Khalil Aghwar, ziyaret in a thick grove of well-grown
oaks through which the route passes.
Three small stream-beds, nearly dry in June, are crossed,
and the spurs to r, gradually cease. The junction of the
Hazil Su on the opposite side of the Khabur is passed.
Leave the Khabur and follow a well-defined, easy track
15-20 ft. wide, stony in places, with ascending gradient.
A plentiful stream in a stony bed is crossed^ Three
Chaldaean villages half-way up ridge to 1., with orchards
and some cultivation.
Gradual ascent along an easy gravel track. A few low
bushes on the hill-sides. Then ascend r, bank of
stream. Low gravelly mounds to r.
Ascend a winding track, 20 ft. broad, towards Derebun
plateau. Easy gradient, passable for wheels.
Derebun plateau (alt. 1,780 ft.) extending N., flat-topped,
and ending in steep bluffs overlooking the Khabur.
Emerging from the rock at the end of the main range of
the Jebel Abyadh is a spring with a large stream called
the Derebun, which forms a small, reedy marsh on the
plateau. This has to be waded. The springs on the
Derebun plateau are warm, and rather brackish.
Derebun, 100 Yezidi houses. Here the Mosul—Jezlret-
ibn-'Omar T.L. crosses the route. Descend gradually
winding through low, bare hills.
Feishkhabur (alt. 1,160 ft.). See 90 b, m. 77-|.