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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [134v] (273/738)
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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262
AGRICULTURE
the beginning of November, and is made into oil, the better
qualities being used with food and the inferior qualities in
the manufacture of soap. The berries when gathered are
dark green or black according to their species. In Damascus
the best black variety is known as dan and the best green
variety as nwdasami. Other species, which are made into
soap, are jeMt, tuff it hi, and suri. The same names in different
localities do not always denote the same varieties.
Rameh, near Safed, is distinguished for the productivity
of its trees and the quality of its olive-berries (Aaronsohn).
The berries of Nablus are said to give from 20 to 30 per cent,
of their weight in oil, compared with the 10-20 per cent,
that is usual elsewhere (Ruppin). The yield of oil per tree
in Lebanon is said to be 12-20 gallons (G. M. Mackie). The
crop of a mature tree in a good season is given by Ruppin as
10-20 oqqahs (12|-26| kilos) and by Weakley as 12-15 oqqahs
(35-42 lb.). In modern plantations 100 trees are planted on
each hectare (2J acres). Olive-trees live and bear well to
a great age.
Mulberries {and Silk Cocoons)
Of the two species of mulberry tree, white and black, the
white only is cultivated to produce leaves for the rearing of
silk worms. It is grown for this purpose on the coast from
Saida northwards and especially in the Lebanon district.
Ducousso 1 estimates the area covered by mulberry trees in
the Lebanon district to be 14,000 hectares, and the ground
on the coast, chiefly in the kazas of Tripoli and Ladiqiyeh
and exclusive of the territory of Lebanon, to be 4,500 hectares.
The area similarly occupied in the interior (chiefly in the
Biqa‘ and the plain of Ba'albek and the slopes of Jebel
esh-Sharqi) is only 1,760 hectares. For the vilayet of Aleppo
Ruppin’s figure is 75,000 dunams (6,800 hectares). It has
been an advantage to the rearing of silk worms in the adminis
trative district of Lebanon that the cocoons have not been
1 A. Ducousso, U Industrie de la Soie en Syrie, Paris, 1913.
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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]
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- 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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