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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [138v] (281/738)
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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270 AGRICULTURE
such good quality as the summer crop. In Lebanon there are
species which produce only a late crop.
Where figs are abundant the greater part are dried by
exposure to the sun for some days and packed for preservation
in air-tight masses. Only some kinds of figs are suited for
this treatment (especially kharriibi and byddi). Such figs
are allowed to remain on the trees until they can be detached
by shaking. The Hejaz railway has opened good markets
for the dried figs (quttein) of Jebel esh-Sharqi and of the plains
of the north. Saida is a centre of the dried-fruit trade.
But it has not yet been extensively developed anywhere in
Syria.
The sycomore or mulberry fig (jummeiz) produces abundant
fruit of a quality inferior to the ordinary fig. The tree is
valued mostly for its wood. It grows chiefly on the coast of
southern Syria, as far as Beirut. The fruit is of a pink colour.
Apricots
Apricots (mishmish) flourish where a good supply of water
is obtainable. The most extensive and productive planta
tions are those of the neighbourhood of Damascus and the
exported fruit comes chiefly from there. The tree grows well
in parts of the Biqa‘ also and elsewhere. In Palestine the
Ramleh district produces a steadily increasing yield of
apricots.
There are early and late varieties which may be grown in
the same district with a difference of two months in the
period of ripening. The variety known as mishmish keldbi
has bitter kernels, the others have sweet kernels which may
be eaten like nuts. In Damascus the cultivated apricot is
grafted on the mishmish keldbi, in other places the almond
tree is generally used as a stock.
Apricots are exported in two forms, as dried fruit and as
apricot paste (qamr ed-din). This latter is used in Syria as
a sweetmeat and in making sherbet (a native drink), and
when exported to Europe it is made into jam. The apricots
are first beaten into pulp and stoned and then spread out on
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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)
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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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