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'Routes in Arabia' [777] (808/852)
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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777
R oute No con^.
At 2 hours 3 minutes is a rock near the left bank, called Sakhr-
an-Namal. At present it is submerged and invisible, hut m
summer it stands 5 or 8 feet out of the water. Steep clay banks
have begun on the left, and stony hills are again approaching
the river on the right.
At 2 hours 17 minutes was a rock, harraj, making rough
water near the right bank, which here is high and liroken.
There was some talk about rapids, and it seemed to be the
opinion of our boatmen that only* those of Jahainah and Sanadiq
were due to artificial obstacles in the river ; at both of these
places they said, cut stones and building work are visible when
the river is low. Jahainah is the more complete of these two
constructions, each of which has a passage for rafts through the
middle of it. The boatmen opined that they were sills made
by Nimrud to raise the level of the river near his town, and it
would seem natural to suppose that they were dams of some sort
rather than bridges.
At 2 hours 30 minutes there was a mound with an Arab
encampment near the left bank. The place is called Qubbat-al-
Hadldi, but we saw nothing suggesting an " iron dome. This
reach of the river is called Jabaih. i x*- ,
At 2 hours 51 minutes we reached the Qal at-ai-Bmt or
" Maiden's Castle," which stands on the right bank at a sharp
bend of the river, here only 150 yards broad, oiieven less. J ho
gun had set, and it was growing dark, so we passed on without
landing. The castle is remarkably situated on an isolated rock
and commands two reaches of the river, looking up the one and
down the other. We could distinguish what appeared to be a
masonry bastion and part of a curtain, the latter loop-holed at
the top. . . , . .
At 3 hours 0 minutes there was a sound of rushing water
towards the left bank, but the boatmen denied the existence here
of any 'awayah or real rapid. The place was called 1 raishah.
At 3 hours 31 minutes Began on he left bank a permanent
camp of the Jibur, called Hawi Dindi, said to be an hour's walk
in lenght, and to extend from this point to the junction of the
"They now said that these were only true 'awdyahs or rapids on ths riverr
—J. G. L.
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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'
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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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