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'Handbook of Hejaz' [10v] (27/204)
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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a trough-like valley without outlet to the sea, and about 200
miles in length. This depression has been utilized to carry
the Hejaz railway from Batn el-Ghul to Dar el-Hamra. At
this last point a low pass (3,700 feet), between massifs of
harrah, gives passage into the second zone. After that the
railway has had little difficulty in reaching its present
terminus by way of the valley and upper feeders of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh, which itself passes close to Medina.
A; has been explained above, however, the continuation
of the railway in this zone is blocked by massifs offering
no practicable passes due southward, and it must either
go down to the Tihamah or repass into the third zone and
circumvent the harrah projections of the Gable Ridge along
the line of the inland Pilgrim Road which approaches Mecca
from the north-east.
The drainage channels originating on the Main Ridge
which traverse the second zone are, in the north, all of the
fiumara type, i.e. without permanent surface-flow. In
Midian, where the elevation of all the slope is great, deep
wadis follow one another in rapid succession, cutting up the
country into a series of detached blocks, and forcing com
munications from north to south to keep either close along
shore (Egyptian Pilgrim Route) or far inland within th
third zone (Syrian Pilgrim Route and Hejaz railway).
Nor owing to their exceedingly steep gradients do they
favour communication from west to east or create fertility.
Midian, therefore, is a conspicuously ill-inhabited, un
settled, and unknown district in a peninsula, to almost all
parts of which these epithets apply in varying degrees.
Such conditions continue until
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh has been
passed.
In the rest of Hejaz, where the general elevation is
lower, while the gradients are more gentle and precipita
tion is, on the whole, more regular, the wadis become more
beneficent and often have some miles of perennial flow.
Even the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh, which debouches a few miles
south of Wejh and unites two main channels from the
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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