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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [188r] (380/738)
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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LEBANON
369
igneous. Down many of them are long streams of trap
and basalt, occasionally dykes of porphyry and greenstone,
and then patches of sandstone before the limestone and
flint recur. North of the line ‘Arqa-‘Akkar is the great
trap belt which lies across the southern part of J. Ansariyeh
and the northern slopes of the Lebanon. The Lebanon has
thick deposits of lignite, of inferior quality owing to the
presence of iron pyrites. Iron is abundant but little worked.
A characteristic feature of the geology of the lower
Lebanon, north of Beirut, is the uptilted strata which
slope sharply seaward to submarine levels. Throughout the
western slopes of the mountain the strata of the flanks of the
gorges dip toward the sea. South of Beirut the lower hills
are formed of hard crystalline limestone much dislocated and
contorted. Surmounting all in the hills behind, is a belt of
calcareous limestone, interspersed with flinty bands and
nodules, which may be traced as far as Judaea, and wdiich,
here as elsewhere, is variegated with silicated calc. The
surface, being now much decomposed, the flint layers stand
out conspicuously. Throughout Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon
the soil formed by the disintegration of rich fossiliferous
cretaceous limestone strata, and the black soil formed by
the crumbling of the volcanic rocks, are constantly renewed
and need little fertilization.
For description of the river systems of this district, see
Chap. XIII.
Anti-Lebanon
Area
The Anti-Lebanon mountain system is bounded N. by the
plain of Homs, S. by the highlands of Jaulan, E. by the culti
vated plain fringing the desert, and W. by the great central
depression.
The central depression, from its northern limit near Quseir
southward to Huleh marshes, is about 110 miles, having
a superficial area of something like 300 sq. miles. The
STRIA A a
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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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