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File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [150r] (308/834)
The record is made up of 1 volume (411 folios). It was created in 1917-1920. 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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139 —
while by adding the Hauran arid the Saab we have the total
number of big wadis which drain into the lower Euphrates from
Arabia and the Syrian Desert. But by following a line from
north to south, say, one hundred miles from the Euphrates under
the western watershed we can enumerate the names of a score
of wadis !
“ Apart from the Suab and the Hauran in the north, and the
Rumma in the south-east, by far the greater number of these
wadis drain into that western extension of the Euphrates basin
which lies between Ramadi and Shinafiyah. Practically the
whole of the Wadian district—whose deep
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-channels are so
numerous that the Arabs themselves cannot enumerate them—
drains into this comparatively small area. The
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Khar also,
which reaches to the Nefud edge east of Jauf, has its destination
in the Bahr-i-Nejef. Yet, in spite of the large extent of country
drained, we only know for certain of the Khar and the^ Burdan
as carriers of the drainage into this basin, the big wadis of the
Wadian—such as the Hamir, the Arar, and the Tebel with their
score of affluents—are still left hanging in mid-desert ; we do
not know their ultimate destination, beyond the fact that they
drain into the region between the Bahr-i-Nejef and Ramadi. ^
“According to report (see Miss Bell’s ‘Amurath to Amurath,
n 131) the three great wadis in this region are the Hauran,
Burdan'and Lebaiah (really the Ubaidh). These are said to
stretch right across the Syrian Desert and even to have then
sources on the Jebel Hauran. The fact that there is a watershed
between the Euphrates and the Jebel Hauran namely, the Jebel
Anazeh and Jebel Laha, does not have its place here ; but e
native idea that the Hauran, Burdan and Ubaidh are the mai
wadis is important. The Hauran we know over a course of two
hundred miles, but the Burdan only exists as a named ica
and has never been connected with the big wadis to the west—
the Hazimi and the Ghadaf. The same hoWs good of he
Ubaidh, except that there seems eveai less ''kebhood °£ its bei g
the recipient o£ any of the Wadian dramage. OM maps showed
the Shetata oasis as being the point ‘ l fi S/'^ XTas
from the south-west, and on one map n. is definite y
4116 W/we knew the origin of the Burdan, ami whither theTebd
^^nYie^md^anTthrLmXNejef region we had a
ST°£ wadis -rded^y « $
bear nVresemblanc 0 e to the names of the wadis either above or
great value for purposes of reference.
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The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘Arab movement’; the bulletins cover a wide range of topics and key personalities.
The volume contains the following maps:
- A map of Central Arabia showing St John Philby's route from Uqair to Jidda 17 November to 31 December 1917: folio 103.
- Sketch map prepared from RNAS photographs and reconnaissance by HMS City of Oxford of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Mur February to March 1918 : folio 170.
- Sketch map of Hejaz (1919): folio 317.
- Tribal sketch map of the Hadhramaut ‘showing only tribes of fighting value’: folios 333v.
Towards the back of the volume is a small amount of correspondence respecting the distribution of Notes on the Middle East ; the Arab Bulletin was superseded by this publication. Copies of numbers 3-4 of this publication can also be found at the back of the volume.
Tables of content can be found at the front of each issue. A small amount of content is in French.
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- 1 volume (411 folios)
- Arrangement
The Arab Bulletins are arranged in numerical order from the front to the back of the file. The Notes on the Middle East follow on from the bulletins at the back of the file in reverse numerical order.
The subject 759 (Arab Bulletins) consists of two volumes. IOR/L/PS/10/657-658.
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Condition: the edges of some of the folios towards the back of the volume have suffered damage to their edges due to general wear and tear. The affected folios are 389-390, 407-409, and 412.
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 413; 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. The front cover and the leading flyleaf have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 357-363 and ff 374-412 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
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- 48r:49r, 96r:97v, 149v:150r
- Author
- Carruthers, Alexander Douglas Mitchell
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