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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [‎227v] (459/738)

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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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448 JUDAEA AND THE SOUTHERN DESERT
Umm el-Badan. Gazelles are numerous in the same re
gions. Wild boars, though rarely seen, exist in con
siderable numbers in the cane-brakes and marshes of the
lower Jordan valley and the Oasis of ‘Ain Feshkheh. The
coney is found in the hills and rocky cliffs bounding the Gh5r
and Dead Sea, but is extremely shy and difficult to secure :
it is the characteristic animal of the solitary district between
W. Qumran and Ras Feshkheh. In the Ghdr, the hare and
the porcupine are also met with. Of noxious game, the fox
and the jackal are common, the latter being met with every-
were, especially in the Gh5r ; the hyaena is very occa
sionally met with in the lower eastern slopes of the Judaean
highlands. Winged game is abundant, especially rock and
wood pigeons, sand partridges, and quails, towards the plains
of Jericho and the Dead Sea Ghor. Of birds of prey, the
eagle, vulture, hawk, and falcon are not uncommon. Snakes,
some of a venomous kind, and reptiles, a few species of which
are of large size, are numerous. Mosquitoes are troublesome
in certain parts of the maritime plain and about the brackish
pools and marshy tracts on the western Dead Sea shore.
Industries
Agriculture .—The approximate frontier between the ‘ desert
and the sown ’ in Judaea is well shown in Fischer and Guthe’s
map, scale 1 : 700,000. Broadly speaking the area of cultiva
tion lies north and west of a line running inland from
the coast a little south of Gaza and keeping at first south of
‘Araq el-Menshlyeh, Qubeibeh, and Dura. Here it turns south,
passes round Semu‘a, then turns north and passes as a sinuous
line, with an easterly trend, to the east of Yutta, Hebron,
Halhul, Bethlehem, EUAzerlyeh (1| m. E. of Jerusalem),
Deir Diwan, and Tayyibeh. All south and east of this line
may be characterized as desert, with the exception of a few
small isolated tracts of cultivation, notably around Beersheba,
Dhaheriyeh, Deir D5si, ‘Ain Farah (Qelt basin) and cultivated
tracts in the Ghor around Jericho. The almost absolutely
barren tract between the line indicated and the lower Jordan

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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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'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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