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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [311r] (626/738)
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 615
alternating, and, as the zone of exposed sandstone near the
sea is entered, becoming more and more difficult to cross.
But there are parts of this slope which deserve special mention.
When the hills rise by terraces, and the upper course of
a
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
turns along one of these, there is formed a small plain
or upland valley where cultivation is profitable and rare
villages occur. Such a tract is found in the upper valley of
Seil en-Nimeireh, known in this part of its course as W.
Jedeireh; here the villages of Khanzireh, ‘Araq and Tar‘m
enjoy the advantages of a good soil with abundant water for
irrigation, while the more important village of Kefrabbeh
occupies a somewhat similar position in the valley of Seil
‘Esal, across the next ridge to the north. All lie on or
near the southern route connecting Es-Safiyeh, at the S.
end of the Dead Sea, with Kerak. Terrace ground of a
similar kind is found on the slopes between Kerak and the
lower Mojib, though here there are no settlements through
the absence of frequented tracks traversing the region.
North of W. Mojib, hills push out from the plateau in a
NE.-SW. direction, and there is no room even for small
plains : here the projecting western end of El-Jibal divides
the whole western slope into two unequal halves. This
ridge forms the watershed between Seil Heidan on the
south and W. Zerqa Ma‘m on the north, watercourses
running from all its sides except the eastern. It slopes
from J. ‘Atarus on the edge of the plateau past Khirbet
el-Mekawar (the ruins of Herod’s Machaerus) with its citadel-
hill of El-Meshneqeh ; its southern sides towards Seil Heidan
have cultivable valleys and, a rarer feature in Moab, occa
sional woods (see below). Below Mekawar to the W. the
marshy plain of Ez-Zara along the shore contains the famous
hot springs of the same name ; and much of the ground
leading down to them, like that not far away along the south
bank of W. ez-Zerqa, is of volcanic rock and lava. (Cf. above,
p. 614.) A track connects the shore at Ez-Zara, one of the few
points between the head of the sea and Lisan bay where boats
can land, with the plateau in the neighbourhood of Libb.
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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)
- Arrangement
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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