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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [51v] (107/738)
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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96
MINERALS, FLORA, AND FAUNA
Marble. —Of this widely distributed mineral, a green and
a greenish-red kind are the most valuable and are used in
Jerusalem and other towns for decorative purposes in build
ings. The best quality is quarried at Beit Sahur near Mar
Saba and a second quality is got from Tantur, south of
Jerusalem. A white marble (melekeh), with rosy tinted
markings is obtained near Jerusalem. Of good building
stone of various kinds there is no lack throughout Syria.
Phosphates are found in the upper chalk strata in many
parts of Palestine, notably on the'eastern slopes of the hills
of Judaea and also east of the Jordan ; it is a product of
fossil remains.
Gypsum is very widely distributed.
Lead .—There are traces of this metal in Jebel Aqra‘ north
of Ladiqlyeh, in the Amanus range, at Ghor es-Safi south
east of the Dead Sea, in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Hesa, and in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sarmuj
(Ardh el-Kerak) a small valley just N. of the Hesa.
Copper .—In Jebel el-Arba‘m (northern Syria), a working
is reported and there are deposits at Saida (Sidon). At the
extreme south of the Dead Sea, there is a good deal of copper
in the Cambrian rock and, to a lesser extent, in the chalk,
e.g. in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ruweibeh.
Antimony is reported to exist at Alexandretta in the
Amanus, and near Antioch; and nickel in Jebel Aqra‘.
Chrome is obtainable in the neighbourhood of Alexandretta,
Antioch, Ladiqiyeh, and in the Amanus. In the period
1886-8 an English company extracted 380,000 tons of this
mineral.
Flora
The flora of Syria is perhaps richer than any other country
of its size in the world. The great diversity of soil, climate,
rainfall, sun-exposure, elevation and depression, give oppor
tunities for the growth of a very large number of species and
varieties. The flowering plants alone are said by Post to
number over three thousand species.
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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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