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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [170r] (344/738)
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 SURVEY 333
into the former being short and sharp, whereas towards the
Orontes the fall is gradual. Robinson and other travellers are
of opinion that the waters of the Orontes, if carried off from
above Ribleh along the western side of the plain, might
all be turned across the watershed into El-Buqei‘ah ; the
course would be through comparatively level country.
A great trap belt lies across the southern part of the range
and abuts against the northern slopes of the Lebanon. From
W. to E. the belt, in some places 1,500 ft. thick, extends from
about 4 miles from the coast to the Orontes valley, but not beyond
it. From a point just S. of Nahr ‘Akkar, its southern limit runs
E. by N. to the main ridge, then eastward to near the shore
of Homs lake. Its northern limit starts from about half way
between N. el-Kebir and Tartus, and swings north-east, then
northward to include Nebi Matta. 1 The latter part of this
stretch runs along the western side of the main ridge only ;
on the eastern side of the main ridge the trap boundary extends
from a point 12 to 14 miles S. of Nebi Matta, to a point
about 5 miles N. of Homs.
Just S. of Shemsiyeh the main chain bends toward the SW.
This bend leases a bay between the mountain mass at that
place and a similar one a few miles S. which is the northern
end of a trap ridge trending S. by E. to El-Buqei‘ah. This ridge
bounds the upper valley of Nahr el-Kebir to the E. Between
the main ridge and this valley is a series of ridges radiating
in fan shape, all capped at their northern end by trap. The
ridge, opposite the southern end of the chain on which Qal at
el-Husn stands, is composed of trap on its eastern, and
limestone on its western ends. At the bottom of the valleys,
especially that between the Husn range and the main chain,
the limestone underlies the trap, but there are occasional out
crops. The trap crosses El-Buqei‘ah and abuts against the
northern spurs of the Lebanon.
For description of the wadis and streams of J. Ansariyeh,
see Chap. XIII, pp. 421 ff.
1 The identification of Nebi Matta is that made by Post, who puts it
about 5 miles to W. of Qal‘at Masyad.
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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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