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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [184v] (373/738)
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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362 LEBANON, ANTI-LEBANON, DAMASCUS PLAIN
has been much faster than at Tripoli. Between Has Beirut
and Ras ed-Damur the shore is sandy and nearly straight, and
a rich well-cultivated plain with olive-trees spreads out to the
foot-hills which rise abruptly. Blown sand has encroached
very seriously on the southern side of the ras and, in the
seventeenth century, the famous pines of Beirut were planted
against this encroachment.
From Ras ed-Damur to Ras Jedra the beach is sandy
and beyond it becomes rocky and'barren to Ras Rumeileh;
thence it is again sandy for 7 miles S. of Saida. Ras
Sarafend is a double-headed bluff with a small islet; a narrow
plain skirts the coast on both sides of this headland, the hills
rising from 400 to 500 ft. high. Between Saida and the
Nahr Qasimlyeh is the plain of Abu el-Aswad nowhere more
than 2 miles wide, except at Saida where the mountains
recede. The surface of this plain is undulating, and the
soil is black and fertile.
Relief .—^Maintaining the characteristic formation of the
Syrian coastal range, the main Lebanon ridge lies close over
the eastern base. There the slopes in general are therefore
short, falling precipitously to the great central depression.
North of Zahleh, however, the base spreads eastward and the
slopes become longer and less steep, finally merging into
the low hill-country opposite Homs. The chief and, in fact,
the only important aspect is, accordingly, the salubrious and
well-watered maritime slopes and spurs which constitute the
bulk of the mountain area. In general the northern part of
the chain is less fertile than the southern part, a peculiarity
which occurs also in the central depression and in a much more
marked degree in the parallel system of Anti-Lebanon.
The main ridge is practically continuous. The most north
ern section is named J. ‘Akkar, the highest peak of which
is 6,980 ft. ; its northern slopes fall to the great divide
between the Lebanon and Ansariyeh ranges, see p. 331.
From the eastern flank of this ridge the great W. Khalid
bends northward, carrying the upper waters of N. el-Keblr
over steep declivities to the basin of El-Buqekah, see
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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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- 'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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