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'Handbook of Hejaz' [10r] (26/204)
The record is made up of 1 volume (98 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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— 4 —
main Gable Ridge behind, and divided from the latter by a
slightly lower tract (the Hismah), which is so little inclined
as to be almost a plateau. Further south these upstanding
masses are more widely spaced, as behind Yambo c , and,
as the rocks become progressively of softer texture,
the elevation falls, as we proceed south, to that of low
hills. Nevertheless, some sort of Coastal Range can be
traced down all the length of Hejaz to a junction with the
higher Asir f Aqabah.
Inland of this Coastal Range the zone continues to rise.
It assumes a plateau character only in the north (Midian).
South of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh blocks of harrah begin to appear, and,
below the latitude of Medina, impart a rugged mountainous
character to the slope, indistinguishable from that of the
main Gable Ridge to east. It is the existence of this
interruption of the even decline, which has deflected to
Rabugh, in the Tihamah, the projected continuation of
the Hejaz railway. South of this mountainous intrusion,
the region behind the Coastal Range (the latter less well-
marked than elsewhere) has neither a distinct plateau nor
a distinct valley character, but is a medley of foothills.
In the presence of so much confusion and variety of relief,
it serves no good purpose to subdivide this second zone
(as in the first edition of this Handbook) into parallel belts
— Coastal Range, Intramontane Uplands, and Gable
Ridge — although, in fact, in some parts of Hejaz (as south
of it, in Asir and Yemen) such a threefold distinction is
obvious and helpful.
(3) The third zone, the uppermost strip of the Central
Arabian declivity, is likewise interrupted by great masses
of harrah which buttress out the Gable Ridge eastwards,
both north and south of Medina, to points beyond the inland
limit here assigned to Hejaz. In these parts, it is more correct
to sav that no third zone exists. Moreover, north of the
Medina harrah region, the inland slope does not decline
directly from the Gable Ridge, but has been f cooped out,
on the east of the high Hismah and 'Aweiridh harrahs, into
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The volume is Handbook of Hejaz. Prepared by The Arab Bureau, Cairo , 2nd edn, 26 February 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).
The handbook comprises information about Hejaz under the following headings:
- Area;
- Physical Character;
- Population;
- Districts and Towns;
- Tribal Notes;
- Political;
- Personalities (including Royal Family, and Others);
- Pilgrimage;
- Trade and Expenses;
- Communications;
- Routes.
The prefatory note states that the handbook was originally compiled by Lieutenant Commander D G Howarth, RNVR; and although the information contained in the second edition had been greatly improved, much about Hejaz 'remains uncertain or unknown'.
The volume also contains an 'Outline Map of Hejaz' (f 4) and a table of the 'Ruling Sherifial Family of Mecca' (f 38).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (98 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a table of contents on folio 7.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 100 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the system used to make reference to the contents of the volume. Folios 4 and 38 need to be folded out to be examined.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-179 (ff 8-98).
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- 'Handbook of Hejaz'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:99v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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