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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [449] (460/542)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 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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CONTEOL OF TIGEIS WATER
449
of the Tigris, the distances between them varying here from 4
to 8 m.
The r. bank of the Tigris below the Nahr Tarmlyeh is fairly well
provided with bunds, and there are a number of embankments pro
tecting Baghdad West (i.e. the part on the r. bank of the Tigris) on
its landward side. If the Tigris bu and the dams or regulators on
the heads of the Euphrates canals are kept intact the country round
Baghdad is dry: if the bunds, &c., break, the country will be flooded
to an extent varying with the size and position of the breaches.
Under normal conditions the country between Baghdad West and
Lake 'Aqarquf may be flooded in spring, when access by land to
Baghdad may be possible only along embankments. (On one of
these embankments runs the Baghdad—Samarra railway.) To north
ward this inundation may stretch many miles, southwards it usually
does not go much beyond the iron bridge over the Kharr Canal. It
is fed by overflows from the r. bank of the Tigris and occasionally
from the Saqlawiyeh Canal from the Euphrates (see Appendix C).
South of the Kharr bridge, along the Baghdad—Museyib road, there
is a belt of country which is usually dry in flood-time. South of
this again, at about 10 m. from Baghdad, Eoute Eeports of 1903 and
1905 mention a swampy area, under water in spring and extending
for some 5 m., after which higher and drier ground is again reached.
This area is marked as liable to flood on Indian Degree Map, sheet 2 C:
but later information makes it doubtful whether it has ever been
flooded since 1910. It must be remembered, however, that so far as
the neighbourhood of Baghdad West and that quarter of the city
itself have been free from flood this has been due to the maintenance
of the bunds, &c., by the authorities. In an abnormal flood, or if
proper precautions have not been taken, the whole country and most
of Baghdad West itself may be flooded (as in November-December,
1914).
It follows from what has been said above that by breaching the
Tigris banks and 'bunds, and also by diverting water from the
Euphrates, the whole of this country lying S. of Beled between
the Tigris and the desert plateau, and farther S. again between the
Tigris and the Euphrates, could be so inundated in flood-time as to
leave only scattered islands of dry ground. A dam or dams in this part
of the Tigris might cause an inundation stretching down to the Hai.
The Country on the Left [East) B —From Samarra to Sindiyeh
the country on the 1. bank is on the whole beyond the reach of the
Tigris floods. The swamp behind the old Qaim Canal seems to be
fed by water from the hills. Between Sa'diyeh (4 m. below Sindiyeh)
and Mansuriyeh the land near the Tigris sinks to below the flood
mes. ii „ f
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume II, Irak, The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, May, 1917), covering the regions of the Shatt el-‘Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab], Kārūn, Luristan, and the Tigris and Euphrates up to Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallūjah]. 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', 'Abbreviations'. There is a 'Contents' which include the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (Shatt el-‘Arab, The Kārūn, The Tigris, The Euphrates, The Shatt el-Hai);
- Land Routes (The Region of the Shatt el-‘Arab, The Tigris Valley, The Region of the Lower Kārūn River of Luristan, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between the Tigris and Euphrates Valley, The Arabian Desert);
- Railways;
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note and List of Maps;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendices (A: Notes on Weather on the Tigris, B: The Control of the Tigris Water, C: The Control of the Euphrates Water, D: Oil-Fields of the Mesopotamia and Persian Frontier, E: Note on Mules);
- Index;
- Plates;
- Maps.
The volume includes eight plates that illustrate the volume. There are also three maps:
- 'Baghdad';
- 'City Map of Baghdad';
- 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged accourding to numbered routes. There is a table of contents at the front of the volume and an alphabetical index at the back. There is also a list of plates and two maps are house in a pocket and one is a foldout.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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 the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:374, 374a:374b, 375:530, back-i
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