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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [334r] (672/738)
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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THE GHOR
661
year, is difficult as the tribes generally utilize the arable and
pasture lands on the lower slopes, in the tributary wadis, and
on the adjoining highlands as well.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
‘Arabah
Physical Features
The great depression known as the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
‘Arabah, so wide
that in parts it suggests a plain rather than a valley, prolongs
to the Gulf of Akaba the cleft between the high country to
east and west begun by the Jordan and the Dead Sea. It is
not a continuous trough with a slope in one direction, but is
divided by a watershed near the middle into two parts, of
which the northern is the longer by some ten miles. The
hue of this watershed, as determined by Lieut. Vignes of
the French Navy, is a curve with a general direction varying
from SW. to NE., lying between 30° 8' and 30° 14' N.
latitude. As the Dead Sea level is about 1,270 ft. below
that of the Gulf of Akaba, while the altitude of the watershed
at its highest point is not far from 800 ft., the average gradient
of the northern slope is the steeper, with a rise of about
2,000 ft. in some 60 miles as against a rise on the southern
slope of 700-800 ft. in 50 miles. The surface is generally
hard, and where not traversable by light wheeled traffic
could be made so ; there are no greater obstacles than those
of occasional sand or marsh mentioned below, all avoidable
without much difficulty, and possibly a steep pitch at the
south end of the watershed. The valley is broadest in the
north, contracting to the watershed and beyond, and once
more widening to the south, though with a less expansion.
It is enclosed along both its sides by escarpments, forming
walls only broken by the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-gorges which enter from
east and west. These rocky walls are in places precipitous,
especially in the east, where the main crest of the interior
heights is nearer than on the west, and the descending steps
into the valley are narrower. The one part where they sink
to insignificance is in the region of the watershed ; here 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]
- 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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