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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [167r] (338/738)
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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PHYSICAL SURVEY
327
el-Qasab. Beyond here, the coast opens out into a narrow
cultivated tract which becomes more narrow as it swings
westward to Ras el-Baseit. This is a low promontory
projected by a ridge coming from SE. close to and parallel
with the coast, and forming the small bay of Baseit
which faces north. From Ras el-Baseit to Ras Fasori, the
coast generally is bold cliffs with a few sandy beaches, and
about 3 miles from the former there is the open roadstead of
Tsa Begli where steamers call to load chromate of iron. North
eastward of Ras Fasori, the great valley, W. Qandll, breaks
through. Ras Fasdri is a conspicuous promontory and,
from it, the coast to Ras Ibn Hani continues in bold cliffs
and some sandy beaches. About 3 miles from the former
is a small bay, a mile beyond which is a rocky point with
a monastery between two sandy bays. This is Mlnet el-
Kaban, a sheltered spot which can be utilized when com
munication by sea with Ladiqlyeh is impracticable. Ras Ibn
Hani is a narrow peninsula projecting mile westward
the shores of which have been extensively quarried. On its
summit are some ancient remains and on the point is a light
house. On its southern side is a bay 1 mile broad with
a rocky reef almost across the entrance. Ras Ziyareh is the
promontory on which lies the town of Ladiqlyeh with an
ancient port now fast filling up and affording little shelter.
From Ras Ziyareh the coast consists of rocky cliffs with
a sandy beach for about a mile when the plain commences,
and the sandy beach continues for nearly 81 miles ; then
follows a line of low cliffs, for 9^ miles to Ras Beledeh. Thence
there is a long straight beach to Baniyas (Bulunyas), at the
northern base of a volcanic hill 930 ft. high on which stands
Qal‘at el-Marqab. From here to Tartus the coast is mostly
shingly beach with outlying rocks. Ras Husein, 10 miles
from Marqab, is a rocky point. Tartus is a walled coast
town and about a mile N. of it is El-Mlneh, a shallow basin
probably an ancient port where small boats and spongeis
shelter ; on the E. side of the basin is a large building used as
a pottery. Ruwad or Arwad island lies 2 miles SSW. of Tartus.
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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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