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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [327r] (658/738)
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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hills. On the SW. side there are plantations of large eucalyp
tus trees.
Between Lakes Huleh and Tiberias the Gh5r becomes con
tracted by the mountains which press in on either hand, and
the river gorge which lies close to the east side cuts deep into
the basaltic bed. At L. Tiberias it spreads out to over 8 miles
and then gradually narrows down towards the S. This area
is almost entirely filled by the lake, there being only small
strips of plain E. and W.
The breadth of the Gh5r for the first 12 miles or so south
of L. Tiberias is 3-4 miles. It then expands westward, merging
in the plain of Beisan, and, if this be included in its area, here
doubles its width. Below W. Maliheh, at the southern
extremity of the plain, the hills close in, and the valley is at
its narrowest; but it soon expands once more to an average of
about 3 miles, widening still farther in the region of Ras Umm
el-Kharrubeh, to reach the breadth of 6 miles at Ed-Damieh.
There is now a general expansion, especially westwards to the
plains of Fasa’il and Jericho, the total breadth soon averaging
about 10 miles. This is maintained to about the lat. of Jericho,
when it increases to some 14 miles, as a result of the receding
bay in the eastern hills through which W. Kefrein and W.
Hesban enter the plain. During the last mile or two the
width again contracts, and amounts to about 9 miles at the
head of the Dead Sea.
With the exception of the late volcanic basalt of the high
ground about its sources, flanking the gorge between L. Huleh
and L. Tiberias, and forming the Galilaean hills down to
Beisan, almost all the high country enclosing the Jordan
valley is composed of cenomanian or of senonian limestone.
Only Jebel Fuqu‘, W. of the Beisan plain, and the Samarian
ridges S. of it culminating in Has Umm el-Kharrubeh and
Qarn Sartabeh are of miocene rock. A wall of limestone hills
rising to the mountains of 'Ajlun and the Belqa lines the
whole eastern side of the Ghor : the only exception on this
side is the volcanic rock south of L. Tiberias, especially about
the outlet of the Sheri'et el-Menadhireh (It. Yarmuk).
THE GHOR
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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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