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'Routes in Arabia' [305] (338/852)
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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305
Houte No. 84— contd.
7 HAURAH .. IS m. North by west. The
rovite continues clown
]V]~ m the w5di -
J At mile 7, Mashhad, the site of extensive ruins.
The route crosses a slight spur of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
'Am.
' At mile 11. Adah, a village with a well.
The route crosses a dreary waste of sand, past the villa 0 o
of Karan.
\t mile. 14, Badrah.
,\t mile 18, Haurah. a huge castle o seven storeys covering
an acre of ground, dominating a very small village, surrounded
by palm groves.
o chtRAM •• 24 m. East-north-east.
S SHIBAU A mile or so below
r Haurah the route
enters 1 the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hadhramaut, here about 8 miles broad from
cliff to cliff and receiving collateral valleys from all sides
forming aK it were a great basin. The valley bed to m.le 11 »
a barren stretch of sand.
At mile 2, Ghanlma (R).
At mile oi^thTwMiHenan. with a good-sized viUageot the
sanie name on its right bank about 6 miles up. The Wad,
Alcnwab ioins the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hadhramaut here. . , , ,
At m. 10, Fnrnth ; good well of brackish water raised by two
mirs of bullocks, one on each side of the well.
P< At about mile 11, valley suddenly f^m
groves with patches of lucerne ; all irrigated with water from
^ AtTnile 12 town of Al-Qatan ; houses built mostly of stone,
Dopulation about 2,000 souls ; there is a bazar ; also a large castle,
and con^d 'erable elate cultivation. Some cereals are also grown.
The water-supply is'good and abundant from numerous wells
tL route Lw lies over sand ; white dome of the tomb of
Shaikh Abu Bakr -bin-Hasan . near which is a roofed-in wel.
Between here and Shiham is land that, has once been tmgatod.
but now abandoned owing to the advancing san ,
At mile 20, Kashamir ; ruins. ^
C51 (W)GSB
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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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- 'Routes in Arabia'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:18, 1:644, 647:816, v-r:v-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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