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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [312v] (629/738)
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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618 SOUTHERN BELQA AND ARDH EL-KERAK
The shorter rise under the crest of the plateau, and reach
the Dead Sea by a direct course. But the larger rise
beyond the Hejaz railway on the hills forming the water
shed between the Dead Sea and W. Sirhan and extending from
Jebel Hajanajeim in the S., through J. esh-Shefa, to J. el-
Mashqal in the N. ; these wadis thus cut their way across
the whole breadth of the plateau, and as its main slope is
against them, the valleys which they form are of exceptional
depth.
These larger watercourses rising in the interior E. of the
plateau-crest, may now first be described, and afterwards the
lesser wadis which begin under the escarpment.
Sett el-Mojib, commonly known as
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
M 5 jib, the great
watercourse of the country E. of the Dead Sea, rises on the
slope of Jebel el-Hafreh, NW. of J. el-Hajanajeim some 55 m.
as the crow flies SSE. of its mouth. Known at first as Ghadir
es-Sultan and
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
es-Sultani, it receives as chief tributaries,
on the 1. bank, Ghadir el-Abyadh (W. esh-Shermeh), a long
but non-perennial watercourse with several branches (W. es-
Suquri, W. ‘Useimer &c.) rising NE. of Dhat-Ras ; and on
the r. bank, various long non-perennial affluents, the largest
of which is W. el-Musheish. Traversing broken limestone
hills, it receives on the 1., some 39 miles from its head, W. edh-
Dheiqeh, rising to SW. near Jafar, and successively known
as W. el-Mezebbel, W. el-Ghuweir, W. es-Seir and W. el-
Hanakein, in which last section it has perennial water. From
the junction with W. ed-Dheiqeh onwards, the main
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
receives the name of Seil el-Mukheires, changed even before
the confluence with W. es-Sefei to that of Seil el-Mojib. A
couple of miles from the junction it receives on the 1 . a brook
from the great springs of Lejjun, and from this point is a
perennial stream. In this section of its course it is crossed
by the Qatraneh—Kerak road ; the ford, perhaps now bridged,
had long been an important one, used by those caravans from
the north which preferred the easier easterly course along the
Hajj road, wdiere the wadis are shallow, to the direct route
across the great gorges of the Waleh and Lower Mojib. N.
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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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