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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [268r] (540/738)
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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PHYSICAL FEATURES 529
town of Mejdel. The Hamam takes its rise near the village
of Hattin.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
‘Amud, the principal
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
falling directly into Lake
Tiberias, takes its rise in the neighbourhood of J. el-Jermaq, and
the basin contains the noted town of Safed situated on a height
on its left bank. It has mainly a south-south-easterly course,
and, after crossing the Ghuweir plain, enters the lake at Tell
el-Henud. Its middle and upper courses, composed of gorges of
striking depth, are known as W. et-Tawahin and W. Meirun
respectively. Safed is approached from the south by a small
but remarkably picturesque valley, with a N. to S. course, which
falls into W. ‘Amud on the left bank, some 6 miles from its
mouth.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Hindaj, known in its upper reaches asW. Farahand
W. ‘Auba, is the principal
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
leading into Lake Huleh. It has
its head-waters near those of W. el-Qarn, rising from J. el-
Jermaq. The
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
, after making a great semicircular curve
to the north, descends the mountains by an extraordinarily
rocky and precipitous chasm ; on reaching the plain, the
stream bears suddenly to the eastward and so crosses the
Ardh el-Kheit, a small plain, to Lake Huleh.
(c) Wadis running north into the Qasimiyeh. Of these the
principal is W. el-Hajeir, with its much longer tributary,
W. Seluqiyeh. The latter rises at Marun er-Rus, and, running
N. between the main and secondary watersheds of Upper
Galilee, joins the Hajeir in a deep gorge on the east of Burj
el-Alawi. W. el-Hajeir itself rises just NE. of Tibnin and
falls into the Qasimiyeh near the bridge, Jisr el-Qa‘qa‘Iyeh.
The length of its basin N. and S. exceeds 14 miles.
E. of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Hajeir, the Qasimiyeh, in bending sharply to
the west, receives W. ‘Aizaqaneh, which rises near Hunin and
has a due northerly course of about 6 miles. The other
tributary wadis of the Qasimiyeh are short and unimportant.
Rivers.
The Nahr el-Muqatta' (River Kishon), is the most im
portant river in Palestine after the Jordan. It drains the
SYRIA L ]
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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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- 'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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