"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد IV .١٩١٧" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٠] (٥٣٠/٣٠٤)

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EOUTE 102 a
295
Miles from
Diar-
bekr
25^
26i
27i
29
81i
33^
88^
851
along bank of Tigris with good trees and a few gardens.
There is an excellent spring here, and a ferry over the
Tigris at high water.
In August the river was fordable at several points, the
channel 100 yds. wide and 3^ ft. deep, with gravelly
bed and slow current,
Eoutes lead N. to Farqln (no details available), and S. to
Mardln either via Qirq (see introduction to Route 95 b), or
via Sor (see Route 100, m. 18J, and 101, m. 38|).
Beyond Bismil the road is easy over a plain. Tersakkeh
is on the far bank of the river f m. off.
Cross the gravelly bed of a stream 200 yds. wide, but
almost dry in August.
2-| m. up the valley on the 1. bank is Fethil.
Qurukji, 36 houses, 1^ m. to r. on the farther bank of the
river.
Large spring giving rise to a marshy stream. Some huts
and hamlets to 1.
Eolpoa, 15 Kurdish houses.
T.L. now leaves the route and strikes NE. to Farqln.
A low col is crossed. Pool in hollow to 1. (nearly dry in
August). Kuchau, ^ m. to 1.
Koad descends into the flat along the Tigris.
About here Gnnda 'fsa is passed ; it is placed on 1. bank
by authority of 1899, but on r. bank by later authority
(compare Route III G, m. 43f). A little farther on Allis
is passed on the r. bank.
Skirt a bend of the river, which flows here in a bed of
shingle and gravel 200 yds. wide, stream in August
100 yds. wide, not fordable.
Gunda Avdi (on r. or 1. bank, as in the case of Gunda 'Isa,
above).
Good spring by the river bank.
Route now gradually leaves the Tigris, crosses a col and
descends to the
Hazro Su (alt. 1,680 ft.), which it crosses. The bed is
gravelly, 200 yds. wide; the stream in August was
20 ft. wide and 6 in. deep. The descent on the r. bank
is short and steep. On the 1. bank is the upper part of
Salat, 80 Kurdish houses.
Mirikullieh, 15 houses, up-stream, and Ashaghi (lower)