'Supplement to Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III' [‎98r] (200/234)

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Arabs out of this region, and 10 days after Musil's journey no drink
able water could have been found.
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Tekrit. The country between Tekrit and the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tartar
is an undulating plain with many shallow springs
Direction of route to m. 12 W. by S. &
Cross a wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. .
Cross a wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. draining to Umm Rahal salt-bed (see p. 98)
Direction from here to the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tartar WSW. Outcrops
of alabaster are seen. The desert slopes W. to the
depression in which the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tartar lies. This depres
sion is 6-7 m. broad.
Cross the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tartar near a projecting bluff called Jadma
The wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. bed is m places 2i m. wide and is said to be
full of water after heavy rain. In the many water-
channels in the bed are small pools of brackish water and
near them small clumps of tar/a.
At Jadma the valley-bottom is of smooth sandstone, and the
laitai can be forded here even when it contains running
water. To S. are the insignificant ruins of a khan, and
farther bE. other ruins beside the wells of El-Melhat.
Here the route crosses the track from Baghdad to El-
Hadhr. Cp. corrections to (i) above.
Fiom the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tartar to m. 46^ the direction is approxi
mately WSW.
Many hollow outcrops of alabaster are now seen. These
have a crust 1-3 ft. thick. Some of them rise to a height
of over 12 ft., and give room enough underneath to shelter
20 persons. Many of the crusts have fallen in, thus
forming deep holes which have to be avoided with care
by camel-men. They are called Et-Tablat, and are said to
occur up to the neighbourhood of El-Hadhr.
Abu Sumach, on a wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. draining into Umm Rahal:
encampment of Dilaim ; water-hole about 6i ft. deep and
5 ft. wide, with about 2^- ft. of water. The direction from
Abu Sumach is about W^NW^. Route rises on to a terrace
which runs E. and W. and falls away to the S.
Reach the Mosul—Rawa route and turn along it SSW.
The ground from about here falls towards the Euphrates
in bioad steps intersected by deep wad is which occasion
difficulties in the descent to the river.
Rawa, on the 1. bank of the river, opposite Anah.
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