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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [174] (183/432)
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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174
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Baghdad
104
106
1124
1131
118
119
122
124
126
128
131
134
over stony brok
en
road descends through ruins and
ground towards Tekrit.
Tekrit. Moderate quantities of supplies are obtainable
Caravans usually rest here for a day on the road to
Mosul, Most of the Tekrit muleteers do not go up the
river, but work between Tekrit and Baghdad. (A 1903
authority estimates the distance from here to Sherei-
miyeh—see m. 131 below—at 31 m.)
N. end of the ruins of ancient Tekrit. Small nullah, after
which the track emerges into undulating desert', high
above the river, towards which run many deep ravines.
The track is now fairly good, over nearly flat country.
Broad, shallow nullah. The track is now very stony and
the country broken by ravines.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mahzim. There is here a little cultivation and some
acacia scrub.
The track now skirts some low hills to the W., and is broken
in places.
Sheriyet el-Hamzeli, camp-ground, with good water from
an arm of the Tigris, 30 ft. wide, 5 ft. deep.
The track now lies through continuous cultivation.
At 3 m. it touches the river, which is here about 150 yds.
wide. The hills are here about ^ m. to the W., rising to
70 ft. above the plain.
The track is easy, occasionally touching the river bank.
The track skirts the river, which is here about j m. wide,
| m. from the hills to the W. At some point in this
neighbourhood is the ravine, reported by a German
traveller in 1893, which marks the boundary between
the Vilayets of Baghdad and Mosul.
The hills are 1 m. to the W., with cliffs 70 to 100 ft. high,
and after some distance give way to sandy mounds.
Qal'at Mekrun, ruins on a projecting bluff. This is perhaps
identical with Khan el-Kharnineh, Turkish barracks on
the site of the ruins of a thirteenth-century building.
The track here runs N. by W., skirting low sandhills, 50 ft.
high, on the W., over a sandy, ellipse-shaped plain, 7 m.
long and 1^ m. broad.
Sher eimiyeh, guard-house and camp-ground. To W. is
a line of low sandy hillocks about 50 ft. high.
The track bends away from the river, having on the NE.
low spurs of the Jebel Hamrln, winding through low
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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.
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- 1 volume (214 folios)
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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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