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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [229r] (462/738)
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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JUDAEA
451
very profitable, as the dates have to be matured artificially.
Of green vegetables, cucumbers, tomatoes, and egg-plants are
the principal, the soil being very suitable to these and their
growth quick ; cucumbers can be produced in a few weeks
and the natives live on them as much as on anything during
the earlv summer months. On unirrigated, but carefully-
tilled land, a considerable area is normally under water-melons,
sown in May and June.
(2) Beersheba district. Between this town and Hebron there
is a tract of plateau, 9 miles by 3 miles, where the soil is free of
stones, and the rolling red ground, broken here and there by out
crops of lime-stone, is partially tilled with wheat and barley.
Pasturage is also good in this locality and supports large flocks
of sheep, especially north-west of Beersheba. South and
immediately east of Beersheba cultivation is very patchy and
the pasturage spare.
(3) The district round Hebron principally produces grapes
and fruit-figs ; little grain is grown. W. ‘Ain el-Quf, west
of Hebron, is especially famed for its grapes of large size.
Otherwise the district is poor in cultivation.
(4) Jerusalem district. Southwards, to Bethlehem and
beyond, there are wheat and barley-growing patches, mostly
stony and small in extent, but sufficiently large to be
]sloughed with oxen. Around Jerusalem and northward, there
are some fertile patches of not inconsiderable extent where
a considerable amount of scientific ‘ dry farming ’ is carried on ;
the ground, not artificially irrigated, is kept loose by continual
tillage. Ploughing here takes place in January—4 ebruary, and
there are two or three cross ploughings up to the beginning of
April, when sowing takes place, see further p. 255. Ihe crops
are principally barley and wheat, with some sesame and dhura.
West of Jerusalem, at ‘Ain Karim and in the W. es-Sikkeh,
at Bittir, vegetables are intensively grown, also water-melons,
there being in both of these localities a good water-supply
from perennial springs. Between Bab el-Wad and Latiun
there is considerable cereal cultivation on terraces.
(5) The maritime plain, N. and iS. of Jaffa and Ramloh.
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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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