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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [463] (474/542)
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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CONTROL OF EUPHRATES WATER 463
accompanied by a breaching of the river bank above, would cause
extensive floods in this region, but probably not such as would reach
so far N. as Baghdad. The floods would probably extend to the
Tigris about opposite Ctesiphon, and thence downwards.
The closing of the Hindiyeh Barrage in the flood would
cause such an alteration in conditions that it is impossible to say to
what distance the results would make themselves felt. So large
a volume of water would be diverted that it might quickly make
itself a new river-bed, or beds, and thereby lessen the areas liable to
flood. (The new bed, or beds, would probably discharge into the
present Hilla Branch.)
However, in any case, it is safe to say that the closing ot the
barrage in the flood season would cause very widespread flooding:
and it is fairly safe to predict that it would make a large belt of
country between the Euphrates and the Tigris impracticable to a
land-force operating between the two rivers above Kut.
For the purpose of causing a flood to impede movement, the
closing of the barrage in the high-water season would probably be
an unnecessarily violent measure. It would be easier to direct water
through particular breaches to particular areas by the
quantity passing through the barrage.
C onditions from the H indiyeh B aerage to S amaweh
The Hindiyeh Barrage and the Hilla
the Hindiyeh Barrage the Euphrates bifurcates into two great
branches (the Hindiyeh and the Hilla), which meet again 2-8 miles
above Samaweh. It appears that from very early times some such
division of the Euphrates has existed, the mam volume of water
having passed at some periods down the western, at others down
the eastern branch. Some forty years ago the Hilla Branch carried
by far the greater supply and was known as the Euphrates , while
the Hindiyeh was only a 'canal'. Then the Hindiyeh head
gradually widened (partly as the consequence of the closing ot the
Saqlawiyeh), till it took the larger portion of the river water. This
process continued, until the Hilla Branch was left dry m the low
season. The Turkish Government constructed a weir (the Old
Barrage'), about f mile below the site of the New Barrage. But
this weir burst in 1903, and failed to check the drying of the Hilla
Branch, though it continued to be (and probably still is) an obstacle
to navigation. The New Barrage, completed in 1913, lies about
6 miles below Museyib. The old head of the Hilla, situated about
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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.
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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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