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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [573] (610/1050)
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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EUPHEATES
573
E
E uphrates —
The length of this famous river between Fallujah—the poitnt where it enters our
purview—and its junction with the Tigris at Qumah is, by the winding course which is
follows, nearly 400 miles ; its general direction between the extreme points mentioned it
from north-west to south-east, but it runs in a curve of which the hollow is on the north
eastern or Mesopotamian side.
To describe fully and with correctness this, the lower course of the Euphrates is at
present impossible. The survey made in 1836 of the river below Samawah and fho
survey dated 1860-65 of the portion between Khan Maqdam and Samawah are now
antiquated, and reliable detailed information about the changes that have taken place in
recent years is not, when it relates to the more inaccessible reaches of the river easv to
procure. So far, however, as these difficulties permit we shall endeavour to describe
the Euphrates,—first in its general and topographical aspects, and then with rHWpt^
to navigation and irrigation.
General course and character.—The principal points that mark the lines of the Eunhratpq
in its lower course are the towns of Musaiyib, Hillah, Diwaniyah, Samawah
Nasinyah and Suq-ash-Shuyukh, by which it passes. This part of the river mav be
divided into three sections; an upper section from Fallujah to Musaivib a central
section from Musaiyib to Samawah and a lower section from Samawah to QCirnah
The following are the principal points, in descending order, and the character of the,
river m the first of these divisions ;—
Name.
Fallujah
Khan Maqdam ..
Al-Khidhr or Khi-
; dhar Aliyas.
(1) On which side
situated; (2) distance
by stream, and (3) average
direction from the
last piacej
Left bank
Left bank
30 miles.
South-east.
Left bank
24 miles.
South-east.
Nature.
See article Fallujah
See article Khan
Maqdam.
A mosque with date
palms and a few
mulberry trees.
Above the mosque
is a wood of tama
risk and poplar
about ^ 800 yards
long by 200 yards
wide. The neigh
bouring Arabs are
Mas'ud. The lands
in the vicinity
belong to the Dairat-
as-Saniyah.
R emarks.
The rive*, which is
spanned here by a
bridge of 25 boats
and divided into 2
channels by an is
land, flows with a
breadth of 240 yards
and a maximum
depth (in November)
of about 25 feet.
The Euphrates has a
width at this place
of about 190 yards.
The banks here rise
about 10 feet above
the level of the river.
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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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