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'Routes in Arabia' [2] (35/852)
The record is made up of 1 volume (425 folios). It was created in 1915. 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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E oute N o. 1 — contd.
3-storeyed houses of brick; 4,000 shops, over 200 khans, and
many mosques ; population, about 140,000. Water for drink
ing purposes is obtained either by means of pipes from the
Tigris, or, as is generally the case, from carriers. A large
number of houses possess wells, but the water in them is
not drinkable. Fuel is abundant, and fodder (for cattle, don
keys, mules, camels, etc.), is fairly so, that for horses being in-
difierent. Supplies consist of rice, wheat, barley, and other
cereals; also fruit and vegetables. Livestock plentiful; domes
tic birds in considerable numbers.
1 m ahmudiyah. . 21 m. South by west.
about 600 yards
2i m . outside Baghdad a
brick bridge, with a ramp leading up to it, is crossed. Water
sometimes collects on either side of this bridge in pools 1 i feet
deep, which might possibly be an obstacle to guns but not to
cavalry or infantry. From a short distance beyond this bridge
to the Kharr bridge at mile 3, the road runs along the top of an
embankment revetted with brushwood and pierced at intervals
by brick culverts giving passage to floods that cross the line
of the road here in wet weather. The top of the embankment
is about 15 feet above the surrounding country, and where it
leads on to the Kharr bridge it attains its maximum breadth
of 45 feet.
The ends of the bridge are 2 stone piers, 16 feet broad and
6 feet long, projecting from either bank ; the central portion
consists of a single iron girder 171 feet long, carrying a metalled
roadway 0 feet wide. In April, when the water in the Khan-
stream is 10 feet deep, the height of the roadway above the water
is 12 feet. At the south end of the bridge, on the east side of
the road, is a 2-8toreyed brick house, behind which are about 20
mud huts.
After crossing the Kharr bridge the road trends to the south,
separating from the bridge embankment which continues west
ward for about 2 miles and ends in the desert. Near mile 6
the road strikes a bend of the Tigris, but again immediately
leaves it. . .
At mile 6, Khan-al-Kharabah, a ruined caravansarai, is
passed on the cast of the road.
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This volume contains descriptions of the 'more important of the known routes in Arabia proper' produced by the General Staff in Simla, India. It is divided up as follows:
Part I - Routes in North-Eastern, Eastern, and Southern Arabia.
Part II - Routes in South-Western, Western, and North-Western Arabia.
Part III - Miscellaneous Routes in Mesopotamia.
Appendix A - Information about Routes etc in the Rowanduz District by Abdullah Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Hereditary Chief of Rowanduz and ex-official of the Turkish Government.
Appendix B - Information relating to Navigation etc of the Tigris between Mosul and Baghdad supplied by our Raftsmen.
The volume contains a Glossary of Arabic Terms used in the route descriptions and a map of Arabia with the routes marked on it.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (425 folios)
- Arrangement
Divided into three sections as outlined in the scope and content.
The file contains a contents page that lists all of the routes included on folios 6-13 and uses the original printed pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: A bound, printed volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the 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. Please note that f 424 is housed inside f 425.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Routes in Arabia'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:18, 1:644, 647:816, v-r:v-v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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