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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [12r] (28/738)
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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PHYSICAL FEATURES
19
parallel valleys by J. edh-Dhahr, a low ridge forced up into
the axis of the plain; that on the W. carries the Nahr Litani,
that on the E. the Nahr Hasbani. The plain reverts to its
former width at the southern termination of the ridge and
then falls in a series of terraced plateaus through which the
Hasbani, forming the upper waters of the Jordan, flows in
a deep chasm to the Bahrct el-Huleh (L. Huleh).
The Huleh basin forms the head of the great Jordan rift
or depression, known as the Ghor, perhaps the most remark
able physical feature of Palestine. From a few feet below
sea-level at the outlet of L. Huleh, the depression falls
rapidly to 682 ft. below the Mediterranean at L. Tiberias
(Sea of Galilee), the river running close to the eastern hills
and about 4 miles from those of the W., which latter rise
more than 3,500 ft. above the lake. South of L. Tiberias
the valley for some 12 miles is only 1—1^ miles wide west
of the river and some 3 miles wide on the east where the R.
Yarmuk joins. Steep cliffs reaching an altitude of 1,800 ft.
rise above the stream on the W. The valley then receives
the Jalud tributary and broadens at the plain of Beisan
to about 6 miles on the west and the river runs about
2 miles from the foot of the line of hills on the east. South
of the Beisan plain, the valley contracts to a total width
of only 2-3 miles and is here at its narrowest part, the river
flowing, for some 10 miles or so, near the base of the western
mountains. Farther south the depression again opens out
to a width of 6-8 miles; it is now flanked, on the west, by the
highlands of Samaria and Judaea and, on the east, by the
mountains of ‘Ajlun. Finally, the valley broadens to the
great basin of the Jericho plain where it measures more than
14 miles across in the widest part, with the Jordan about in
the middle. The Dead Sea, 50 miles long by 10 miles broad,
with a surface level of about 1,300ft. below the Mediterranean,
fills the lowest section of the rift or Ghdr and washes the bases
of the mountains that rise to an elevation of 2,000-3,000 ft.
on either shore.
South of the Dead Sea, the great depression is prolonged
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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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