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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [144] (153/432)
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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144
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Baglidad
o
6
11
14
15
18
20
Baghdad. The route leaves the town by the Bab el-
Moadhdham and takes the l.-hand branch outside the
gate (a r.-hand branch leads to Baqubeh).
Pass cavalry barracks, skirt a large dyke. Cross several
irrigation canals, some 6 ft. deep and 10 ft. wide, with
small bridges of date trunks, about 3 ft. wide. These
bridges will generally carry a laden mule, but it is well
to examine before using them and test them first by
men on foot. Walled gardens on 1. for 2 m.; cultiva
tion on both sides for 4 m. Near Mo'adhdham the
track is boggy for ^ m.
Country open and cultivated. All this region is liable to
be flooded in spring. Low mounds to r.
Pass Ehan-i-Badran, in ruins, and for the next 2 m.
some irrigation channels with marshy ground extending
towards the river. Euins of Bint Hasan to E.
Pass Qal'ah Tinai, in ruins.
Cross irrigation cuts and skirt an embankment to keep out
the floods of the Tigris, which is now visible to the W.
The embankment is about 20 ft. high, 12 ft. wide on top,
and 30 ft. wide at the base.
Jedeideh., 300 houses, in a grove of date gardens,
enclosed by a mud wall ; two khans. (The distance
given by the authority here followed is perhaps too
short. Jedeideh may be 20-21 m. from the Mo'adhdham
Gate.) The first khan reached on entering the village
is about 80 yds. square, with stabling for 200 horses,
having a well in the centre, with water 20 ft. below the
surface. The other khan, near the river, is 60 yds.
square, with stabling for 100 horses. To NE. are
numerous villages along the Nahr Khalis, and canal
from the Diyaleh. Small canals cross the road flowing
towards Hawesh.
Beyond the principal khan the track lies through walled
date gardens for a mile. Ground swampy in winter and
spring from irrigation. On leaving the village cross an
irrigation channel, 15 ft. deep and 30 ft. wide. Skirt
this for ^m., then strike half-right over a marshy
plain.
Cross three parallel irrigation channels. A road goes
between two of these. Channels about 8 ft. deep and
12 ft. across, with the usual palm-trunk bridges.
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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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