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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [289v] (583/738)
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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572
HAURAN AND JAULAN
thickly covered with oleanders and cane-brakes : the gorge
now widens to about 500 yds., the banks are less steep, and
the stream receives much water from lateral springs and
brooks.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Zeidi (‘Aweiret Zeizun) rises in J. ed-Druz, north of
Salkhad, and passing the Nuqrah of the Hauran, touches Der‘a,
some distance below which it is known as W. el-Meddan; in this
section it is joined on the right bank by W. ed-Dahab from J.
ed-Druz, a long watercourse with shallow bed and no perennial
stream, falling about 2,700 ft. in its length of over 40 miles.
Beyond Tell esh-Shehab (SW. of Muzeirib) it is joined on the
same side by W. el-Bajjeh flowing from the Bajjeh lake. It
is now for a time called
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Tell esh-Shehab, until it receives,
also on the right bank, Moyet Zeizun, the name of which it
takes until its confluence with Sherfet el-Menadhireh. It has
two large southern tributaries : W. el-Butm, with its affluent
W. el-‘Aqib, rising on the spurs of J. Hauran, runs for about
45 miles in a broad rocky bed with shallow banks, and comes
in about 12 miles above Der‘a; W. Shomar, said to rise on the
W. foot of J. ez-Zumleh near the Hajj road, runs for a long
distance parallel with W. esh-Shellaleh, cuts through the
plain of Naku‘ near Remteh and deepens its bed to more
than 30 ft. near its mouth, about 1 mile W. of Tell esh-
Shehab: both are ‘ winter wadis ’, without perennial streams.
Throughout its upper course, where it traverses the lava,
W. Zeidi does not cut deep into the plain. At Umm el-
Meyadln, where it enters the limestone formation, it abrades
the foot-hills of J. ez-Zumleh, forming steep banks on the S.
side; only near Tell esh-Shehab does it cut itself a deep bed.
It has no perennial brook, but there are springs about Bosrah,
and again at Der‘a, where there are six, two, ‘Ain el-Mesari
and ‘Ain et-Tawileh, yielding good drinking water, the others
brackish.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
esh-Shelldleh, in its middle and lower course the boun
dary between ‘Ajlun and the Hauran, rises far to S., its upper
branches descending from the water-shed of Jebel ‘Ajlun
west of Suf, and from a point north of Jerash; until it reaches
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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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