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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [311v] (627/738)
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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616 SOUTHERN BELQA AND ARDH EL-KERAK
The section farther north between the lower Zerqa and
W. ‘Ayun Musa is not very well known ; but before the latter
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
is reached, the Dead Sea has been left behind, and the
western slope has reassumed importance. For with the abut
ment of the hills on the Jordan valley, instead of on the shore,
their valleys receive the thoroughfares which at all periods of
history have linked Palestine with Moab. By W. ‘Ayun
Musa and W. Hesban run the tracks connecting Jerusalem
with the eastern plateau. That to Madeba passes on the
right of the mamelon of En-Neba (Nebo, alt. 2,643 ft.) from
which a ridge runs west to J. Seyagha, a bold scarped head
land jutting out between W. Jedeid (Heri, Ghuweir) and
W. ‘Ayun Musa, and falling in terraces to the Jordan valley
3,000 ft. below. This hilly country SE. of Jordan consists of
rocky valleys separated by bare limestone ridges, cultivation,
on the higher ground, not appearing until the plateau is
approached ; the slopes, however, are covered with grass in
spring.
Coast
The shore of the Dead Sea between the north end and
W. Zerqa Ma‘in is not now continuously passable, though
in 1874 pack-animals could be taken the whole way, if with
difficulty and by circuitous tracks. The sandstone cliffs rise
steeply, and are broken by small watercourses, in the valleys
of which palm-trees cluster. Here and there it is still possible
to walk for some distance, as near W. Umm Qaleib (2 m. south
of W. Anazeh), where the hills recede from the water’s edge.
In the middle region, between W. Zerqa Ma‘in and W. Mojib,
it is possible to land at the above-mentioned plain of Ez-
Zara. Beyond this point, both N. and S. of W. Mojib, the
cliffs are inaccessible until the northern baj^ enclosed by the
Lisan peninsula is reached. Here begins the first of the
alluvial beaches (ghors), known from the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
crossing it as
Ghor el-Haditheh; here is the small creek El-Mineh serving as
the ‘ port ’ for shipment to Jerusalem of grain from Kerak
Somewhat to the SE. of this spot are a few rude huts, built
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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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- 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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