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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [134] (143/432)
The record is made up of 1 volume (214 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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134
EIVEE EOUTES
Eight Bank
Channel in 1903 followed 1. bank past several small islands.
Here are shallows and spits of gravel. Chesney's map
(1840) shows an 4 old ford of Abu Chelabi' in this neigh
bourhood. Navigation is difficult: the channel kept to
r. bank.
In .this neighbourhood there appear to be two islands,
Mughleh el-Keblr and Mughleh es-Saghlr. It is not clear
where these islands lie or whether one of them should not
be identified with Abu Hamad I. mentioned below.
Abu Hamad Island, 4 m. long. The channel in 1903
kept to r. bank.
Zor Shammar. Here are shallows and spits of sand,
and the navigable channel is tortuous. The W.O. map
marks a ford here called El-Khatlseh, but it is uncertain
on what authority.
Zor Jibli.
Channel narrows to about 100 yds. Eapids for 400 yds.
Zor Nomd.
Qishlaq Sabkhah. Police post and village. 25 houses,
pop. ? 150. T.O. Ferry.
Below the barracks is a watering-place, and there is
camping ground with good grazing. The barracks were
unoccupied in 1907. The village contains a fair-sized khan,
with 10 rooms, on the E. of the place, and 12 mean shops
on the street which runs past the khan. A Mudir has his
head-quarters here.
According to an authority who went down the river in
1903, from Sabkhah up to Mohammed Agha and Hamra
Eapids (see m. 106^-, below) there is no difficulty of navi
gation, the river being 200 yds. wide, with an average
depth of 8 ft., and a current of 2^ m.p.h. in January.
(Note .—An observer who passed Sabkhah travelling by land
in April 1907 says, ' Eiver here forms a right angle and
runs very swiftly in a rapid. I do not see how a vessel
could pass up-stream of this point.')
A mile or more W. of the fort are the Nukhaileh. ruins,
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser Zāb, the country east of the Tigris towards the Persian frontier, and the routes running westward from the Euphrates valley across the Syrian Desert. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume. This volume was supplemented with corrections and additions in June 1918 (see IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5).
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of 'Contents' which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (The Tigris and the Lesser Zāb, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (The Tigris Valley with Region to East, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, The Syrian Desert);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendix;
- Index;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes', which includes 'City Map of Baghdad' (f. 212) and 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes, Volume III' contained in a pocket.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (214 folios)
- Arrangement
This volume is arranged according to numbered routes. There is a page of contents and an alphabetical index. There are two maps housed in a pocket.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; 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 (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:422, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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