Details

Subject(s)

• Physical geography—Iraq—Maps [Browse]
• Canals—Iraq—Maps [Browse]
• Canals—History—Maps [Browse]
• Iraq—Description and travel [Browse]
• Mesopotamia—Maps [Browse]
• Bābil (Iraq : Province)—Maps [Browse]

Related name

• Selby, W. B. (William Beaumont) [Browse]
• Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) [Browse]

Engraver

• Weller, Edward, 1819-1884 [Browse]

Publisher

• John Murray (Firm) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Physical maps [Browse]
• Maps [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown by hachures.
• Ancient supposed navigable canals, unused irrigants or branch canals, and canals in actual use are shown. Ruins converted by time into Tels or mounds are located.
• Soil conditions and agricultural land use shown by shading.
• Includes ancillary map: Sketch map: showing supposed positions of some places of historical interest, [scale ca. 1:1,229,000].
• From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 37, (1867), p. 160-82; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.37 1867

With

Issued to accompany article: On part of Mesopotamia contained between Sheriat-edl-Beytha, on the Tigris, and Tel Ibrahim / by Lieutenant J. B. Bewsher, Surveyor in Mesopotamia. Read before the Royal Geographical Society, April 8, 1867.

Other format(s)

• Available also online through the Princeton University Libraries, Digital Map & Geographic Data Web site.
• Online version of map and companion article available also through the JSTOR Web site. Access limited to subscribing member institutions only.

In

Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. v.37 (1987), p. 160-82,facing page 160. London : John Murray

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