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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [221v] (447/738)
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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436 JUDAEA AND THE SOUTHERN DESERT
certainly no permanent water runs from it into W. Ghazzeh ;
but he records having seen water at Abu Hareireh at the end
of March 1908, and Baumert at the end of July 1913, though
there was no water at the mouth of the Sheri‘eh at either of
these dates. See further p. 464.
(2)
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Hesi. The outfall of this
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
lies about mid
way between Gaza and Askalon and it has its main heads on
the waterparting of the Judaean plateau between the villages
of Dura, west of Hebron, and Dhaheriyeh between Hebron
and Beersheba. The main channel takes a generally westerly
course and enters the true maritime plain near Tell el-Hesi.
Continuing westward it passes close S. of the village of Deir
Sineid and, after a further course of some 4 or 5 miles, falls
into the Mediterranean Sea. A rather important branch,
known in part of its course as W. Muleiheh, falls in on the
1. bank near Tell el-Hesi after passing Tell en-Nejileh, between
which two hills it carries a small sluggish perennial stream ;
another branch, W. Halib, falls into the main
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
at Deir
Sineid.
The main channel of W. el-Hesi appears to carry perennial
water for only about 1 mile from its mouth, this stream
finding its supply of water in the neighbourhood of the coast
dunes.
(3) The Nahr Sukereir is the outlet of an extensive and
complex system of wadis draining the central ridge between
Bethlehem and Hebron. Its main arms, each with a generally
east-westerly course, are two : on the N., a long valley
bearing various local names—W. Musurr, Jindi, Sant (with
branch Es-Sur joining at Shuweikeh), and Burshein—which,
after zigzagging through a gorge, enters the plain at Tell
es-Safi; on the S., a long
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
commencing near Dura and
known as W. el-Airanj down which and its continuations,
W. Jemrureh and W. Sharqiyeh, runs the important road from
Hebron to Beit Jibrin. Below this town, the southern valley
continues north-west as W, Mejma‘ to join the northern arm
at Jisr Esdud about 2 miles N. of the village of Esdud. The
southern arm receives an important branch, W. el-Ghuweit,
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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)
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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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