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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [241v] (487/738)
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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476 SAMARIA (INCLUDING CARMEL)
and J. et-Tor with an average breadth of l|-2 miles, being
narrow in the north and south and broader in the middle.
At about one-third of its length from the north, W. Nablus
comes in from the west. The hills on its eastern side are
low but rocky and often project into the plain, and, directly
opposite the Nablus valley, an offset or arm—the Plain of
Salim (3 miles by 1| mile)—runs up at right-angles among
the eastern hills. The Mukhneh plain is drained mainly
by W. Qanah, and the plain of Salim by W. Bidan affluent
of W. Far‘ah.
The Plain of Beisan, which calls for special notice, may be
said to extend from the Nahr Jalud to
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Malih (see p. 474),
a distance of 11 miles. The valley of the Jordan here undergoes
a great widening which commences at the outfall of the Jalud
into the R. Jordan and thence stretches westward along the
foot of the hills on the north of Beisan and up the Jalud
valley, to the waterparting between it and the Plain of
Esdraelon, about 15 miles from the Jordan. On the south
side of the Jalud valley the plain is bounded by J. Fuqu‘
until it comes to about 3 miles west of Beisan when the
mountain range turns to the south and forms the western
limit of the plain of Beisan. For about 7 miles south of the
N. Jalud, the plain is 6 or 7 miles wide ; beyond this, low
hills advance suddenly and reduce it to a width of about
3 miles at its southern end.
An abrupt rise takes place in the plain, occurring along the
whole length of the broad part from the N. Jalud and Beisan
on the north towards the advancing hills on the south, and
it lies about midway between the Jordan Zor and the foot
of the western mountains and parallel to them—the plain is
thus on two levels. The height of this remarkable bank
amounts to 400 ft. or more and it appears to be the projaer
limit of the western Gh5r at this point. The village of Beisan
lies on its edge and so does the road which connects Beisan
Nablus.
The Plain of Beisan is a tract of great agricultural possi
bilities, now given over mostly to wild and rank vegetation.
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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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