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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [298] (307/748)
The record is made up of 1 volume (371 folios). It was created in 1916. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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298
HASA
Physical Character
The greater part of Hasa consists of steppe and desert land rising
westward from a low coast, along which the country is of
type. The surface is broken by a number of isolated hills which
serve as landmarks ; continuous high ground is found chiefly in the
interior to the W. of the region; such is the line of hills along
the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Miyah (see p. 309), and the Jebel et-Taff to the S.;
the stony ridges of Summan, running more or less parallel with the
coast of the Gulf, intervene between Hasa and the belt of Dahanali
which separates it from Nejd. Apart from the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Miyah the
principal valley is the great
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Faruq in the SW. Saline de
pressions (sibdkh) occur in the tracts on or near the coast. Shallow
wells of drinkable water are numerous, and there is a fair quantity of
grazing; the desert parts of the region are thus habitable by
Bedouins. But the richest districts are the two oases of Hasa and
Qatif in the S., where water is abundant, and there are not only
wells, but springs, streams, and lake-like ponds, the whole repre
senting the subterranean drainage of inner Arabia, which passes
the Dahanah underground. (See also under Bahrein.)
Climate
The climate of the lower and eastern part of Hasa is of the
character usual to tihdmah plains, but the moisture is increased in
the oasis tracts by the amount of surface water used in irrigation.
Here the great heat common to the whole region is doubly oppressive
in the hot season, more especially in Qatif; as the coastal plain is
left behind, the healthier desert conditions begin to obtain. Statis
tics are not available for Hasa, as for Koweit and Bahrein, but it is
probable that the variations of temperature lie somewhere between
those quoted for these two principalities, the climate being less
subject to extremes than that of the former, and perhaps rather
less equable than that of the archipelago. The average maximum
temperature would then be about 110° F., and the average minimum
rather above 40° F., the hottest weather occurring in July and
August, with heat increasing from April and decreasing from
September, the cool season falling between November and March.
The average rainfall should be about 4 in., almost the whole
being confined to the cooler season and to comparatively few wet
days.
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This volume is A Handbook of Arabia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: May, 1916) and contains geographical and political information of a general character concerning the Arabian Peninsula. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, from sources, including native information obtained for the purpose of compiling the volume, since the outbreak of the First World War. Separate chapters are devoted to each of the districts or provinces of the Arabian Peninsula and include information on the physical character, as well as social and political surveys.
The volume includes a note on official use, title page, and a 'Note' on the compilation of the volume. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following sections:
- Chapter 1: Physical Survey;
- Chapter 2: Social Survey;
- Chapter 3: The Bedouin Tribes: A. Northern Tribes, B. Tribes of the Central West, C. Tribes of the Central South, D. Tribes of the Central East, Supplement: Non-Bedouin Nomads;
- Chapter 4: Hejaz;
- Chapter 5: Asir;
- Chapter 6: Yemen;
- Chapter 7: Aden and Hadhramaut: A. Aden and the Interior, B. Hadhramaut;
- Chapter 8: Oman: A. The sultanate of Oman, B. Independent Oman;
- Chapter 9: The Gulf Coast: A. The Sultanate of Koweit [Kuwait], B. Hasa, C. Bahrain, D. El-Qatar, E. Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ;
- Chapter 10: Nejd;
- Chapter 11: Jebel Shammar;
- Chapter 12: The Northern Nefūd and Dahanah Belts;
- Chapter 13: Settled Tribes of the North-West;
- Chapter 14: Settled Tribes of the West;
- Chapter 15: Settled Tribes of the South;
- Chapter 16: Settled Tribes of the Centre;
- Appendix: Note of Topographical and Common Terms;
- Index;
- Plates.
The front of the volume includes a 'List of Maps' and a 'Note on the Spelling of Proper Names'. Maps contained in this volume are:
- Map 1: Arabia: Districts and Towns;
- Map 2: Orographical Features of Arabia;
- Map 3: Land Surface Features of Arabia;
- Map 4: Tribal Map of Arabia.
The volume also contains fifteen plates of photographs and sketches by Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Douglas Carruthers, Captain Gerard Leachman, Dr Julius Euting, George Wyman Bury, and Samuel Barrett Miles.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (371 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in chapters. There is a contents page, list of maps, alphabetical index, and list of plates.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last of various maps which are inserted at the back of the volume, on number 371.
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- 'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:381, 384:726, ii-r:ii-v, ii-r:ii-v, 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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