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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎196] (211/1050)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (523 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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'ARAB
. The following table* of the same reach brings out additional facts connscted with
irrigation and navigation and the geography of the banks and presents those already
given in a different light ;— 4 J
Direction
of
the river.
Names
of river
side
tracts
fright bank).
Names or
number of
tributaries
or
irrigation
creeks
(right bank).
Names
of river
side
tracts
(left bank).
Names or
number of
tributaries
or
irrigation
creeks
(left bank).
Remarks.
South-east and
south-south
west.
Sharish ..
A1 Bli Ghir-
bah.
Suwaib ..
South
Do.
• •
Umm-ash-
Shilb.
••
There is an
island here
called , Umm-
ash-Shilb.
South-south
east.
Dair
Do.
•- •
••
Do.
Shafi
Shafi
Nashwah..
Nashwah..
South-south
east and
south-east.
Sahib-az-
Zaman.
2
'Azairij ,,
East-south-east
Nahr 'Umr
Do.
East..
Khaimah
Buqchah
v #
South-east
Do.
1
Hamrah ..
« •
South
Harthah ..
MTj^adT^'ah
Kataiban
Kataiban
Do.
South-south
east.
Do.
Gurmat 'Ali
Gurmat 'Ali
Shalahi ..
Jazlrat-al-
Kibasi.
Saghir ,,
There is an
island here
called Sa-
ghlr.
South-east
Jubailah
Sufiyah and
Jubailah.
Dependen
cies of Bas
rah Town.
Shi'aiblyah,
Kibasi and
Kharab.
• •
topography of the right bank from Basrah to Muhammareh.-f—The following is a list of
the villages and settlements which succeed one another upon the right bank of the river
♦Supplied by Major J. Ramsay, Poltieaf Resident at Baghdad. It is based on fhp n r t
A. Hamilton and Gardner R.I.M of the " Comet," who surveyed this part of the river in 1906^07
tThe topographical tables which compose the remainder of this article have been compiled from a valuable
report submitted by Captain Bowden of the R. I. M. S. " Lawrence " in iQOfi affAr Q i i • . 5!
report Is illuitrftted by a map which is cited in a footnote to thewS 'Iraq a Cl03e tocal milulrJ ' : tbe

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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.

The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.

A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.

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1 volume (523 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.

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