'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [187v] (379/738)
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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368 LEBANON, ANTI-LEBANON, DAMASCUS PLAIN
ravines which descend obliquely toward the north ; immedi
ately over the Orontes channel the face is abrupt and in the
vicinity of Neba‘ el-‘Asi it drops to a deep chasm. The surface
is sparsely covered with oak, wild plum, hawthorn, and other
trees, to the effect of which the ridge owes its name sha'ra,
‘ hairy,’ in contrast to the baldness of the main ridge. The
ridge runs from J. Sannin northward to the end of the chain,
and its lowest and narrowest part is a little S. of Yamuneh
opposite where the central depression attains its greatest
width. Northward it increases in height and width, encroach
ing more and more upon the plain ; the greatest height of the
ridge and the least width of the plain are found opposite
Fikeh, a village at the base of the Anti-Lebanon.
In the vicinity of Zahleh and Shtora the mountain sides
are richly cultivated with vines, and closely resemble the
western slopes ; here a considerable stream, N. Bardani (see
p. 403), flows to the Litani. Southward the short and precipitous
slopes are scarred only by the beds of winter torrents. On
the southern part, along the base of J. Rlhan, there runs a
line of low sharp ridges, which become higher toward
the S. Between them is a valley running NE. to the
Litani in which is the large village of Meshghareh. Just
opposite Jisr Burghuz the slopes are intersected by W. Sifsaf,
up which the road to Jezzin leads ; immediately to the north
is a broad low swell about 1 mile wide, thrown eastward from
the base, through which breaks the deep chasm of the
river. Farther south another similar spur, a prolongation
of the southern foot of the Lebanon is thrown out. It passes
over and into the lower ridge east of the ruined Qal‘at
esh-Sheqif perched on a cliff 1,500 ft. sheer above the Litani,
near the point at which this river bends west to the sea.
Geology
While the bulk of the mountain and all the higher ranges
are, without exception, limestone of the early Cretaceous
period, the valleys and gorges are tilled with formations
of every possible variety, sedimentary, metamorphic, and
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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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