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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
379
and desolate, its jagged crest being scantily clothed with
juniper ; the eastern slopes are partially cultivated but there
are no trees on the’ lower parts. Some of the wadis falling
to W. Yafufeh bear oaks.
Jebel esh-Sharqi .—This is the main chain of the Anti-
Lebanon system. It trends NNE. from Hermon and is
intersected by the great Barada gorge, beyond which it
assumes more definite form. The loftiest and most imposing
of all the chains, its ravines are of singular wildness and
grandeur. The highest peaks rise in the narrow part of
the ridge north of Bludan, and again on the north-eastern
flank, where the mountains widen out toward the desert.
In marked contrast with Lebanon, it is bare and desolate, the
slopes being only very sparsely dotted with juniper trees; the
northern part is almost entirely barren. Water is scarce
throughout, especially in the northern part. The valley beds
are overlaid by a kind of natural macadam, which frequently
affords easy travelling, but there is little communication
across the ridge between W. Barada and Hasya. The chain
throughout is composed of limestone, with foundations of
sandstone and igneous rocks appearing at only a few places.
The eastern slopes at first merge into the J. Qalamun
chain, then disengage and fall to the wide spreading upland
where lies the village of ‘Asal el-Ward, alt. 5,550 ft. Near this
place W. Sahrij marks the division between the parched and
barren country northward and the comparatively well watered
country southward. Beyond Nebk, the desert in places
comes close up to the base of the mountains and all is barren
except at Yabrud, Nebk, and Hasya, where there are good
supplies of spring water.
The western slopes are separated from J. Zebdani by the
plain of Zebdani and W. Kharrad ; a few miles N. of Aafufeh
J. Zebdani merges into J. esh-Sharqi. Still farther N. the
chain again becomes separated from the central depression
by a low parallel ridge which commences about a mile NE. of
Nahleh and forms the eastern boundary of the plain onward
to the Homs plateau.

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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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Title
'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:366v, back-i
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East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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