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The record is made up of 1 volume (263 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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252
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Mosul
25
26|
28|
m
30i
37|
39
A wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. is crossed. This wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. , or possibly another crossed
in the neighbourhood, is called Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Debuneh, which
was reported in 1880 as probably containing water at
most seasons. The depression in which the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Debuneh lies is thickly strewn with large blocks of
stone. In the plain to NE. of it is a hill called Tashtah,
near which there is said to be a spring. The plain is
bounded on N. and S. by low ridges running NW. and
_ SE.
Uch. Tepeh., three tels about ^-l m. S. of the track.
'Ain el-Beidha, three springs near a small hill.
Abu Miriam, small village on a Spring on W. side
of the tel, and cultivation in plain to W. There are
several other tels in the plain. A ridge bounds the
plain to N., 3-6 m. distant, running in a NW. direction.
A wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. is crossed. Track rises very gradually.
Route reaches the top of the gradual slope, here crossing
the line of the low hills called Jebel Mehlebiyeh. It
then gradually descends a valley (cultivated in 1880),
with low hills on either side.
Route passes a rain-water pool. A little farther on is
a cistern.
Tel A'far.
The following account lias been based on the information of an Arab
officer in the Turkish service who in August, 1914, traversed the
route from Tel A'far to Mosul in 13 hrs. by carriage :
Miles
0
16
18
23
31
38
Mosul.
Cross Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Badosh.
Khan Lubgilleh.
Re-cross Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Badosh at Khan el -Baghleh.
Abu Miriam.
Tel A'far.
(ii) Southern Route
This appears to be rather worse supplied with water than
the northern route.
Mosul. The route is said to run for about 6 m. over
a cultivated plain.
Route passes through low, stony hills (Jebel 'Atshaneh ?).
Route emerges into open, undulating, cultivated country,
which is traversed as far as Muwali.

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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume IV, Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April, 1917), covering Mesopotamia north of the line joining Rowanduz, Mosul, Meskeneh [Maskanah], and Aleppo, up to Van, Bitlis, Diarbekr, and Mar‘ash. 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.

The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', and 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of contents which includes the following sections:

Introduction;
Itineraries;
River Routes (The Tigris, The Euphrates);
Land Routes (Central Kurdistan, Routes between Mosul and Diarbekr, Routes between the Plain of Diarbekr and the Moutains to North and West, Routes between the line Diarbekr-Mardīn and the Euphrates, Interior of Norther Jezīreh, West of the Jaghjagha Su, The Euphrates Valley and Country West thereof, Across the Taurus between the Euphrates and Mar‘ash, and Aleppo-Mar‘ash);
Railways (Aleppo-Ras el-‘Ain-Tel Ermen);
Gazetteer of Towns;
Bibliographical Note;
Transliteration of Names;
Glossary;
Index;
Plates;
'Sketch Map of Routes'.

The volume contains 15 plates, which illustrate the content of the various chapters, and 1 map entitled 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.

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1 volume (263 folios)

Arrangement

The volume is arranged by numbered routes. There are pages of contents, an index, and a list of plates. There is one map house in a pocket.

Physical characteristics

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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English in Latin script

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Reference: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/6
Title: 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917'
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:262v, back-i
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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