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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [192r] (388/738)
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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ANTI-LEBANON
377
Toward Beit Jenn on the southern slope of Hermon, alt.
3,490 ft., there is a rocky plateau covered with basalt boulders
and prickly shrubs, and through the village there flows a fine
stream in a
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
the sides of which are lofty and precipitous
and composed of naked white rock. The stream is fringed with
poplar, walnut and apricot-trees ; lower down it is supple
mented by another large spring, and together they form the
upper waters of the N. el-‘Awaj.
From the northern end of the main ridge of Hermon, a
lofty spur runs out eastward and on its southern side is
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Barbar, a deep ravine with a small stream, opening out into
the plain near Qakat Jendel. South of this village is a lofty
peak, the termination of another spur, and south of this
again is a valley, wider, deeper, and longer than the former,
which seems to penetrate the mountain to its centre. From
the main ridge to the bed of this valley there is an unbroken
descent of fully 6,000 ft., and beneath the brow of the mountain
are the small springs which form the Nahr c Arni, the chief
branch of N. el-‘Awaj and the only important stream on the
eastern flank. The eastern plain here penetrates far into the
mountain. Just beyond Qatana, alt. 2,975 ft., is a ravine
marking the north-eastern limit of Hermon and separating
it from the ridge Qalabat el-Mezzeh, which bounds the desert
tract Es-Sahra. This latter ridge is low with gentle slopes
of white naked limestone. The northern base of Hermon is
irregular and of great width, and extends westward to the
village of ‘Aiha, alt. 4,860 ft. At Rakhleh, alt. 5,020 ft.,
a vast gorge runs SW. into the recesses of the mountain
and a fine spring gives fertility to the wild recess.
The Western Chain .—Of the four chains radiating north
ward from Hermon, the western runs N. by E. from Rasheya.
A little S. of Yunta it throws off to 1. a parallel subsidiary
ridge which forms the eastern boundary of El-Biqa‘. The
chain then continues northward in a broken and irregular
form to J. Zebdani from which it is separated by W. el-Qarn ;
this
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
, along with W. el-Harir of the branch ridge, forms
the pass through which the Damascus chaussee is carried.
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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).
- Physical characteristics
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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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