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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [230r] (464/738)
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
453
rainfall and partly to the method of ploughing obtaining
with the natives and which is considered not usually deep
enough to keep the seed sufficiently well-moistened to protect
it from the heat of the sun at the period of the development
of the ear. The abundance of the crops (grain in particular)
depends not only upon the adequacy of the winter rainfall,
but equally upon the sufficiency of the later rains which are
essential to the swell of the grain, and also upon the absence
of hot E. winds which scorch and destroy. Lean years
are sometimes due to the ravages of locusts and much destruc
tion is often done by rats. The locusts, if they come, usually
arrive from Africa in March and, unless dealt with before the
‘ hoppers ’ are hatched, do untold damage. Early information
of their flight can usually be obtained from the Sudan : they
frequently miss Egypt and follow up the east coast of the Red
Sea.
Orange culture in the Jaffa district is fully described in
Chap. VII, p. 264 f.
Stock - rearing. — This branch of agriculture is very
restricted and comparatively neglected in proportion to
the resources of Judaea. The supply of meat is conse
quently insufficient to the needs of the district and is very
largely supplemented by supplies brought by the Bedouin
to the principal markets at Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Gaza. Most
of the cattle are of a small black breed. North of Jaffa there
is a fancy breed of white oxen, but they are not numerous.
Horse breeding in southern Palestine is non-existent. Sheep
and cattle pasture mostly in the plain, and goats, in far
greater numbers, in the hilly districts, being capable of
living where other grazing animals would find little to support
life. In 1901, according to Cuinet’s figures, the approximate
numbers of head of stock were as follows : Cattle (oxen,
bullocks, cows, buffaloes, calves), 19,000; sheep, 77,000,
goats, 159,000 ; horses, 700 ; donkeys, 4,800 ; mules, 400 ;
camels (including the desert to the south of the distiict),
3,500; but, though the proportions may be fairly accurate,
these figures in all probability give no correct estimate of the
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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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