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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [172v] (349/738)
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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338
JEBEL ANSARIYEH
Natural Products
Minerals .—Asphalt and bitumen are among the unde
veloped resources of the country. Prospecting licences were
granted as far back as 1850 for coal and asphalt mines at
Antioch and J. el-Aqra‘, but nothing has resulted. In the
Ladiqlyeh district an extensive concession for three mines
of bitumen and asphalt was granted to a British subject in
1904. These mines are too far from the coast to be profitably
worked without a light railway. Three chrome mines also in
the Ladiqiyeh district, all near the coast, are worked under
a protecting licence. The quantities extracted were as follows :
in 1904, 182 tons ; 1905, 822 tons ; 1906, 21 tons ; 1907, 64
tons.
Woods .—The steady destruction which has gone on for ages
has denuded the mountains of the greater part of their fine
forests yet, compared with southern Syria, there are still
considerable tracts of woodlands. The mountains above
Antioch are suited to trees of every kind but the whole
of J. Quseir has been almost entirely denuded. The northern
part of the range near the coast, with the exception of the
upper slopes and of J. el-Aqra‘, is clothed with fine pines and
oaks with occasional walnuts. East of Ladiqlyeh there are
woods of evergreen and other oaks, including the uzr which
is used for making fires to smoke the abu rihah tobacco-leaf
(see p. 267). The N. ez-Zerqa and the upper reaches of N. el-
Kebir flow through wooded country, and the surrounding hills
are covered with oaks and pines. On the eastern slopes of
J. Ansarlyeh there are forests of gall-bearing species of oak.
In the neighbourhood of Ja‘far Teyyar there are woods of
a small kind of beech and oak, and in the districts of Safita
and Husn el-Akrad there are wooded hills. The oleander
borders the streams and the myrtle abounds in the mountains
and plains throughout the whole region. The wild olive is
very common in the hills E. of Ladiqiyeh. The woods of
Sahyun district are exploited by charcoal burners.
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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