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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [400] (419/1050)
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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In the following table the principal features of the Batin are enumerated and are
described in descending order* ;—
Name.
Tarfiyah
Sarif
'Ain Ibn Fahaid
Jibbah
Taiyib Ism .
Thamamiy ah or
Thamami.
Umm-al-Fahud
Matrabah
Falaij-al-Janu-
biyah and Fa-
laij-ash sha-
maliyah.
Hafar
Ballal (Qasr),
Position.
About 15 miles from
Buraidah.
15 miles from 'Ain
Ibn Fahaid, near
west bank of
W adi-ar-Rummah.
36 miles south of
Jibbah.
17 miles from Taiyib
Ism.
29 miles from Tha-
mamiyah.
37 miles from Mat-
rubah.
22 miles from Mat-
rubah.
28 miles south of
Hafar.
Drain into the Batin
at Hafar.
In the middle of
the Batin, about 160
miles west-south
west of Kuwait
Town.
In the middle of the
Batin, about
25 miles below
Hafar.
Nature.
Wells
Wells
A spring ..
Numerous wells
25 wells
Several wells
Camping ground
A depression
Two drv watercourses,
The remanis of an old
mud fort, about 50
yards square, with
some outlying debris.
There is nothing
impressive about
these ruins though
the Arabs attribute
them to the pre
historic Bani Hilal.
R emarks.
One contains drinking
water at 6 fathoms ;
the others are dry.
Fair water at from 1 to
4 fathoms.
Undrinkable water.
Sweet water at 2-3
fathoms.
Sweet water at 3
fathoms.
Five have sweet water at
4 fathoms : in winter
supply is plentiful but
in summer enough for
a score of camels only.
Similar to Matrubah.
Holds up water after
winter rain; is in
a valley entering the
Batin from the south.
Coming from north-rorth
west and south-south
east respectively.
See article Hafar.
The bed of the i alley
is • here of greater
breadth and bears
more vegetation than
near Riqa'i, but
there is no water,
and the existence of
the ruins is some
what difficult to
account for.
•A portion of the Batin below Jabal Sanam was examined by Major Knox, in January 1908. The results
were unfortunately received too late for incorporation in this Gazetteer and were transferred to the Foreign
Department.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:312, 312a:312d, 313:456, 456a:456f, 457:460, 460a:460f, 461:572, 572a:572f, 573:586, 586a:586f, 587:634, 634a:634f, 635:662, 662a:662f, 663:858, 858a:858f, 859:910, 910a:910f, 911:974, v-r:viii-v, back-i
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