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The record is made up of 1 volume (365 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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16 BOUNDARIES AND PHYSICAL SURVEY
which together form what has been recognized from the
earliest times as the easiest entrance to the interior of the
country. The Esdraelon plain, traversed by the Nahr el-
Muqatta‘, the most important river of Palestine south of the
Qasimiyeh, is roughly triangular in shape with a breadth
at its widest eastern side not far short of 15 miles and is an
almost level tract of unsurpassed fertility.
South of the plain of Esdraelon, the country again rises
gradually into the mountain systems of Samaria and Judaea.
In the first, the hill ranges are separate and comparatively
open and appear to radiate from a centre at which lies the
Merj el-Ghuruq, a peculiar elevated depression, alt. 1,180 ft.
From this centre, towards the NW., runs off the ridge of
Carmel (maximum alt. 1,808 ft.), to terminate in a bold
promontory above Haifa ; towards the N. returns the ridge
of J. Fuqu‘, (Gilboa), alt. 1,648 ft. ; while the main ridge
continues jDarallel with the Jordan valley and consolidates as
it approaches the confines of Judaea. The highest summits in
Samaria are in the neighbourhood of Nablus and include
J. Suleimiyeh (Ebal), alt. 3,077 ft., and J. et-Tor (Gerizim),
alt. 2,849 ft. The Judaean range prolongs the mountain
system of Samaria southward, at first in a long zigzag range,
known as J. el-Quds, the highest point of which, Nebi Samwil,
is 2,935 ft., and again to the south as a compact and rugged
mass known as J. el-Khalil, around Hebron, and it is here
that the Judaean highlands attain their maximum elevation
(3,270 ft.), and compactness. South of Hebron the ridge
spreads out upon a region quite distinct in Character and,
becoming more and more arid, descends gradually towards
the southern desert.
The range in this section varies in width from 14-17 miles.
On the east side of the watershed, throughout, the ground
slopes rapidly in terraces from an average height of about
2,500 ft. above sea-level to a maximum depth in the lower
Jordan and Dead Sea Ghor of 1,300 ft. below sea-level. In
the main, the eastern slope is a waste destitute of water, known
in the southern part as the Desert of Judaea. Its most

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Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor , Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).'

'Contents. Chapters:

  • I. Boundaries and Physical Survey, p 9 (folio 7)
  • II. Climate, p 24 (folio 14v)
  • III. Minerals, Flora and Fauna, p 93 (folio 50)
  • IV. Military History, p 109 (folio 58)
  • V. Inhabitants, p 175 (folio 91)
  • VI. Turkish Administration, p 236 (folio 121v)
  • VII. Agriculture, p 252 (folio 129v)
  • VIII. Industry and Trade, p 276 (folio 141v)
  • IX. Currency, Weights and Measures, p 318 (folio 162v)
  • X. Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 325 (folio 166)
  • XI. Country East of Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 344 (folio 175v)
  • XII. Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, and Damascus Plain, p 357 (folio 182)
  • XIII. River Systems of Northern Syria, p 395 (folio 201)
  • XIV. Judea and the Southern Desert, p 427 (folio 217)
  • XV. Samaria (including Carmel), p 472 (folio 239v)
  • XVI. Galilee, p 515 (folio 261)
  • XVII. Haurān and Jaulān, p 556 (folio 281v)
  • XVIII. 'Ajlūn and Northern Belqa, p 580 (folio 293v)
  • XIX. Southern Belqa and Ardh el-Kerak, p 612 (folio 309v)
  • XX. El-Jibāl and Esh-Shera, p 636 (folio 321v)
  • XXI. The Ghōr (Jordan and the Dead Sea); and Wādi 'Arabah, p 645 (folio 326)
  • Appendix: Conventional Spellings, p 668 (folio 337v)
  • Index, p 669 (folio 338)
  • Plates, p 725' [missing]
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1 volume (365 folios)
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The volume contains a contents page (folio 6) and an index (folios 338-365).

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 367; 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. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence. The volume originally contained fourteen plates showing maps, bound into the back of the volume. These are now missing; details of the plates can be found at folio 5v.

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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:366v, back-i
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East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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