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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [26r] (56/738)
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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CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA
47
Variations in temperature are greatest in April and May, the
extremes amounting to as much as 45° F. to 59° F.
Three daily observations are available for a short period at
Jericho from which approximate daily variations can be esti
mated. From these it is found that the evening temperatures
are lower than the morning in summer, while in the other
seasons the mornings are cooler. At noon there is an average
increase of about 15° F. above the morning ; this varies
slightly from month to month, but is about the same both in
winter and in summer.
It is difficult to obtain reliable shade temperatures on the
shores of the Dead Sea, owing to the absence of shelter ; the
high temperatures registered must therefore be accepted with
reserve. Lynch records an April temperature of 106° and
compares the air to that of an oven.
Records of the temperature of the water in the Dead Sea are
only available for the period from November to May, and they
vary from 61° to 91-4° F.
Precipitation .—The yearly precipitation in the Jordan valley
is considerably below the mean of Syria. The total fall averages
20-2 in. and 17*3 in .at Tiberias and Melhamiyeh respectively, as
compared with 26 in. at Jerusalem. The number of rain days is
from two to three less at Tiberias than at Jerusalem. December
and January, here as elsewhere, have the heaviest rainfall.
Evaporation is intense in the lower Jordan valley ; observa
tions at Jericho are said to show that it is ten to thirteen times
as great as on the coast and about four times as great as at
Jerusalem. In specially dry weather it is said to amount to
0-79-0-98 in. per day.
Cloud .—-Cloud is less prevalent at Melhamiyeh and much
less at Jericho than on the coast, the mean for January being
3'7 and 2-4 respectively as compared with 4-6 on the coast as
a whole and 5-6 at Beirut. Similar conditions obtain through
out the year, the figures for July being Melhamiyeh 0-4,
Jericho 0-01, coast IT, and Beirut L5 ; this shows that the
lower Jordan valley, due to the small rainfall and intense
evaporation, is practically cloudless in midsummer.
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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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