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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [350] (359/748)
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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350
NEJD
jectural. It may be assuihed that the eastward slope from the
plateau is very gradual and long, and that the rich grazing districts
of Hariq and Kharj both lie on this slope, one below the other, till it
melts imperceptibly into plain and is bounded by the southern con
tinuation of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hanifah. Partly on the plateau itself and partly
below its westward scarp lies a third not unfertile district, Aflaj,
fed by its inland drainage. To the south and south-westward of
the latter lie two more districts, Saleyyil and Dawasir, but how
related to Jebel Toweiq we do not know. It is certain, however,
that they are fed by a wholly different sj^stem of drainage—that
which, starting in the highlands of SW. Arabia, flows inland and
probably is absorbed midway across the peninsula.
The whole region is only intermittently fertile, and all its settlements
have an oasis character ; but, internally, it contains no formidable
desert, though much steppe. Ah and harrah do not occur in it
at all. No part is rich, as the present Emir of Riyadh has borne
witness, in pleading more than once that his inland dominions contain
no district so productive as Hasa (q.v.).
B. Climate
The region is comparatively temperate, except, according to
report, in its extreme southern districts. Harlq in particular is
reported exceedingly hot, and all heard of Dawasir, coupled with
the dark coloration of the Dosiri, leads us to suppose it no cooler.
In Riyadh, Palgrave says a fire is welcome on winter nights, but his
testimony and that of others suggest that sharp cold is not known
there. On the Toweiq plateau it is different, and Qasim has a keen
desert air, which would render all except its summer nights very
chill, were it not for its comparatively low elevation (under
2,000 feet). It can be unpleasantly cold in spring, even in the
daytime.
Rainfall is, throughout, very scanty, the precipitation which the
northern Nefud enjoys rarely extending south of Jebel Shammar,
and the rains of the Gulf littoral, which delayed Shakespear in the
Koweit district in late winter 1914, not passing Jebel Toweiq.
Most of the rain which does fall in South Nejd is during summer
storms. The prevailing winds are westerly, except in the extreme
north of the district, where they are deflected to southerly, as shown
by the altered direction of the sand-waves in the Nefud north of the
lower course of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Rummah.
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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.
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- 1 volume (371 folios)
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The volume is arranged in chapters. There is a contents page, list of maps, alphabetical index, and list of plates.
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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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- 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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