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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [51r] (106/738)
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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MINERALS
95
Maqarim station on the Haifa—I)er £ a railway): a boring was
undertaken in 1912 by the Syrian Exploitation Company but,
after reaching a depth of 600 ft. in 1914 and the expenditure
of £T. 12,000, the apparatus broke and the enterprise appears
to have been abandoned. In the year 1914, the American
Standard Oil Company was on the point of making borings
for petroleum near Kurmul, about 44 miles southwards of
Hebron, but was prevented from carrying on the work by the
outbreak of war.
Salt .—Strata of ordinary salt exist at the south-west
end of the Head Sea, notably in Jebel Usdum where*they are
of great thickness, but the mineral is little worked because
of transport difficulties. It is also extensively found at
Tadmor (Palmyra) and at Jud in the Hauran. Salt is
obtained in Syria mainly from water, the most important
supply being from the depression of Es-Sabkheh or Jebbul,
south-east of Aleppo and from artificial salt-pans on the
northern shore of the Head Sea. The industry is a govern
ment monopoly; in the year 1911-12, 12,000,000 kilograms
and, in the following year, 9,300,000 kilograms, were obtained.
Sulphate of magnesia and magnesium chloride are found
south-west of ‘Ain Jidi (west of the Head Sea).
Head Sea water has valuable curative properties : wounds
heal quickly as a result of bathing in it and the Arabs bathe
for rheumatism. The
bromide
An image photographically reproduced on to bromide-coated paper.
in the water should be good
for nervous ailments and the whole question is deserving of
investigation. Hot mineral springs are spread all along the
great Central Hepression : they are used very generally by
the natives (especially the sulphur springs), and a large
number of those in the Gh5r, as, e.g. the hot baths of Tiberias,
are radio-active.
Sulphur is abundant in the Head Sea basin and in certain
parts of the lower Jordan valley. It is collected by the
Bedouin at ‘Ain Jidi and Masada, but is not sufficiently
pure for exportation on a large scale.
Alum is said to be found north of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Zerqa Ma‘In east
of the Head Sea.
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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]
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (365 folios)
- Arrangement
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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