‘Sheet No. 2 Canal and Communication Map of Mesopotamia’
Scope & Content:
The map is an additional sheet intended to accompany the map on the preceding folio (f 53). Although this map bears no key, it uses the same colour-coding and symbols as found on folio 53, as follows: existing canals and river systems, marked with blue lines; new canals, or the extensions to exi...
‘Lower Mesopotamia between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The map is printed in four colours, with each colour being used to indicate a different category of features: blue: hydrographical features, including the river systems of the Euphrates and Tigris, canals, marshes and lakes, and their names. Notes on the flooding characteristics of different geo...
The map shows the docks built on the south bank of the Shatt-Al Arab at Margil [Al Ma‘qil], near Basra, Mesopotamia. Features and facilities (some labelled I.W.T. [Inland Water Transport]) shown on the map include: dock infrastructure, including shipping berths, wharves, water channels, depots a...
‘Panorama showing ground traversed by Anglo-Turkish boundary ‘Haushabi-Humar’ to N. of ‘Ad Dareja’’
Scope & Content:
Black and white reproduction of an illustration of mountainous territory on the Anglo-Turkish boundary. Significant hills and summits are marked as either being in British (B) or Turkish (T) territory, or being on the boundary itself (BO).
‘View up the Tiban N. from Lijma, showing Jabal Warwa.’
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Black and white reproduction of an illustration showing a view of the Tiban valley [Wādī Tiban] from Lijma [Al Lijmah], with the peak of Jabal Warwa in the distance. Human figures standing in and alongside the river provide scale to the scene.
Black and white reproduction of an illustration showing a view of the coast at Balhaf [Balḩāf]. The illustration is signed Lieutenant A L Paris, Royal Engineers, and dated 13 July 1902. The remains of the village, ruins, a tower, and the valley leading into the interior, are highlighted on the i...
Black and white reproduction of a map of Makalla [Al-Mukallā], Yemen. Text below the map scale states that it was enlarged from an Admiralty map, and produced at Steamer Point, Aden, on 20 July 1902. The original map was signed E M Little, 2nd Lieutenant of the R.G.A. [Royal Garrison Artillery]....
Reproduction of an illustration of the port of Makalla [Al-Mukallā], as seen from the seaward side. The map is signed Lieutenant A L Paris, of the Royal Engineers, and dated 14 July 1902. A number of key buildings and other sites in the town (forts, towers, landing place) are highlighted.
Black and white reproduction of a map of Ash-Shehr [Ash Shihr], Yemen. The map is signed E M Little, 2nd Lieutenant of the Royal Garrison Artillery, and was drawn on 20 July 1902, at Steamer Point, Aden. The map shows the extent of the town’s walls, indicating its gates, and significant building...
‘View east from J Abab at head of Wadi Kurim, opposite Al Husen’
Scope & Content:
Black and white reproduction of an illustration of mountainous terrain, seen from J Abab [Jabal ‘Abbāb], with the Tiban Valley [Wādī Tiban] in the foreground. The most prominent peaks are labelled with transliterated names, and in some instances also with compass bearings. The illustration is si...
