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'Routes in Arabia' [‎773] (804/852)

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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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R oute N o . 202— contd.
Tall-ash-Sha'ir for Baghdad; about fa of the quantity is said to
be wheat and -fb barley.
At 3 hours 25 minutes we pass the deserted site of lamman
on the right bank, which here again inclines to be high and bold.
On the left bank is the village of Sultan 'Abdullah, consisting of
50 to 60 houses of Jibur.
At 3 hours 38 minutes there is an island on our right with
large Gharab (Eurphrates poplar) trees.
At 3 hours 55 minutes Zawiyah is left behid on the right
bank, it is a settlement of 'Ajl Jibur, composed of 50 permanent
house^ and about 200 tents. ^
At 4 hours 3 minutes Makuk, a village of 100 houses of Jibur
about 2 miles inland from the left bank, was said to be opposite
us ; and at 4 hours 27 minutes Khabbatah, a village of 50 houses
of Jibur occurs on the left bank.
At 4 hours 53 minutes we reach what we take to be the
landing place for the Qaiyarah bitumen springs and tie up;
there are cliffs on the left bank and a low gravel island near the
right bank. The place, however, proves to be the wrong one,
and we go on for 10 minutes more to a spot where there is a
considerable encampment of Jibur on the right bank. We
thus take 5 hours and 3 minutes from Nimrud to Qaiyarah, or
(3'31 + 1 "26+5■3 = ) 10 hours in all from Musal to Qaiyarah.
QAIYARAH. Before continuing
our voyage towards
Baghdad wo paid a
visit to the Qaiyarah bitumen springs and oil refinery.
These lie about 2 miles inland from the place on the right
bank where our raft finally halted. At 20 minutes from the
river an oilv stream is crossed; at 30 minutes an old Qasr or
fortified enclosure is passed; and at 35 minutes the new oil
works are reached.
The bitumen springs are situated in the beginning of some
low hills, where they form an* expanse of bitumen, irregularly
shaped, with an average diameter of about 100 yards. The
surface'is all bitumen, in places hard, in places viscous, in places
soft: and there are oozings, here and there, of sulphurous water.
The "bitumen is collected soft in the open watery spots and
packed in skins; what is taken away during the day replaces
* This expanse may be compared to a lake of inky water covered with jet black
lee.

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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.

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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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English in Latin script
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