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Subject(s)

• Tigris River Valley—Iraq—Maps [Browse]
• Iraq—Description and travel [Browse]
• Ḥaḍr (Iraq)—Antiquities [Browse]
• Tigris River—Maps [Browse]

Related name

• Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873 [Browse]
• Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) [Browse]

Publisher

John Murray (Firm) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Physical maps [Browse]
• Maps [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown by hachures.
• Ruins, tombs, and other archeological features are shown.
• Includes: Ground plan of the city of Al Hadhr and its central ruin, numbered in accordance with Ross's descriptions.
• Includes lithograph illustrations of front of the building at Al Hadhr, numbered in accordance with Ross's descriptions, and of inside of the hall no. 2, May 1836 & 1837.
• From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 9 (1839), pp. 409-30, 441-76; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.9 1839

With

Issued to accompany articles: XIX. A visit to the Sinjár hills in 1838, with some account of the sect of Yezídís, and of various places in the Mesopotamian Desert, between the Rivers Tigris and Khábúr / by Frederick Forbes, Esq., M.A., of the Bombay Medical Staff -- XXI. Note accompanying a survey of the Tigris between Ctesiphon and Mósul / by Lieutenant H. Blosse Lynch, Indian Navy. Baghdád, 25th July, 1839 -- XXII. Notes on two journeys from Baghdád to the ruins of Al Hadhr, in Mesopotamia, in 1836 and 1837 / by John Ross, Esq., Surgeon to the British Residency at Baghdád -- XXIII. Note on a part of the River Tigris, between Baghdád and Sámarrah / by Lieutenant H. Blosse Lynch, Indian Navy.

Other format(s)

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

In

Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 9 (1839), p. 409-30, 441-76, facing page 476. London : John Murray

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