"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد IV .١٩١٧" [و‎‎٦‎٦] (٥٣٠/١٣٦)

ROUTE 67 b
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Eound the head of a deep wooded ravine to r. (alt. 3,735 ft.).
Descend a 15 ft. ledge and pass
Zauka (alt. 3,395 ft.), a Km-dish village of 50 houses on
a wooded plateau. From a point somewhat to S. of the
village the W.O. map shows the road to be passable
for wheeled traffic. An alternative track, reported in
June 1888 to be better than that detailed here, branches
off more to the W., rejoining at the Plr-i-Dawud (see
m. 80|). Follow a zigzag track down a spur to a
V-shaped ravine-
Cross and recross the stream-bed in the ravine (alt. 2,480 ft.);
then along a narrow ledge in a clay slope, the track
going through hills covered with low oaks and brush
wood.
Pass Guzlin, ^ m. to r., a Kurdish village of 50 houses,
surrounded by cornfields. Low oaks and brushwood on
the hill-sides. Descend a gravelly spur covered with
brushwood, passing a stream in a deep narrow ravine
to 1.
Alt. 2,530 ft. Descend a 3-ft. ledge in sandstone for
200 yards.
Cross the Sipneh. Chai (alt. 2,715 ft.). This stream is
a tributary of the Khabur Su, which it joins above
Zakho. It is crossed by a bridge, the Pir-i-Dawud,
58 yds. long, with a planked centre span, 4 ft. wide and
27 ft. long, and 4 masonry arches with a 6-ft. roadway.
This bridge is untrustworthy, and it is best to ford the
stream, which was 20 ft. wide and 6 ins. deep in June.
Here the better alternative track from Zauka (m. 76^
above) rejoins. From the bridge the road consists of
a broad gravelly track, with an easy gradient, which
follows a grassy slope among low shrubs and vineyards
and then winds up to
Daudiyeh (alt. 3,015 ft.), village of 40 Chaldean and
20 Kurdish houses, overlooking a deep valley to the SE.
It is the head-quarters of a Kaimmakam under Mosul.
A mud fort, 100 yds. square, loopholed, with walls 3 to
4 ft. thick at the bottom, built in the earlier half of last
century, but long dismantled, lies ^ m. to the E. The
road runs E. across a broad plateau. For the route
connecting Daudiyeh with Zakho see 90 c.
Pass Keni, a Christian village of 50 houses, in a grove on r..