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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [255r] (514/738)
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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CARMEL
503
Belad er-Ruhah over the south-eastern border. The red soil
appears to be very rich, as the remarkably luxuriant tree and
shrub growth, especially on the slopes, indicates, while on the
ridges and uplands, covered as they are only by a thin layer
of chalk, vegetation is much more sparse and trees, with the
exception of a few stunted pines straggling along the water
shed, are absent.
Water-supply
Carmel is badly off for water compared with some of the
districts around. The sources of supply are surface springs
(not so common in Carmel as elsewhere), deep wells, and
cisterns cut in the limestone. The latter, known as jurn
(or ruhrah, if of large size), are sometimes bell-shaped and
hold up the rain-water of the early part of the year for a
good time. Water sometimes flows out also from subter
ranean pools (nezzdzeh), but only after rain.
The finest springs are : ‘Ain es-Seyyah, in the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
of the
same name below Ed-Deir; ‘Ain ‘Usufiya, in W. esh-
Shdmariyeh, the main source of supply of the village of
‘Usufiya; ‘Ain Qutf ez-Zuhur, near Tireh; ‘Ain tlmm
esh-Shuqaf, about | mile W. of Daliyeh ; ‘Ain en-Neba‘,
in the middle course of W. Falah; strong springs in the
middle course of W. es-Sindiyaneh ; and ‘Ain ez-Zerqa in
W. Bostan, a very fine spring situated east of the village
of ‘Ain Haudh. Good springs are also frequent at the foot
of the north-eastern slope of the Carmel ridge, at the edge of
the Merj Ibn ‘Amir but these belong more properly to the
Muqatta‘ basin (Galilee).
Along the coastal plain and in the lower ground the water-
supply is almost entirely from wells or water-holes, many
of which are of considerable depth. Among the most fre
quented wells are : Bir et-Tanturah, a deep modern shaft
with very good water, about 1 mile S. of Tanturah ; Bir
‘Ain et-Tireh, a well, fed by the spring ‘Ain Qutf ez-Zuhur,
on the E. side of the town of Tireh ; the well of Iqzim, on
the west side of the village, of ancient construction, reached
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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