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'Handbook of Hejaz' [15v] (37/204)
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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— 15 —
track runs south, avoiding the shore till past the opening
of the Red Sea. Then it has to come down to the coast,
for the land rises suddenly into a series of granitic peaks,
from 7,000 to 9,000 feet in height, behind which, at an
elevation of about 6,000 feet extends a plateau presenting
a continuous escarpment to west at an average distance of
forty miles inland. The valleys descending from this
escarpment between the coastal peaks, and also those from
the peaks themselves, are all sand-choked fiumaras, with
none but very scanty desert vegetation. The plateau
behind the escarpment is a vast plain of red sand with
isolated outcrops of rock and is known generally as Hismah.
It is about fifty miles broad, and, on south and east, is
enclosed by rugged barren ground capped with lavas, whose
peaks are about 1,500 feet higher. When this barrier,
the northernmost part of the main Gable Eidge of Hejaz,
is passed, there is a steep fall eastward to the long trough
like depression described above (p. 5) along which the Hejaz
railway is laid at a distance of about 100 miles from the
Midian coast. Beyond this depression is hard dusty desert,
often strewn with basaltic detritus, reaching to the western
flank of the Nefud. Route No. 3, from Muweilahto Tebuk,
passes through country typical of Midian.
The littoral as far south as
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh was regarded
as Egyptian territory under Ottoman suzerainty until 1886.
South of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh, the district which lies between the
coast-line and the Hejaz railway (here about 130 miles inland)
is ill-known to us, and the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh itself, which
enters the sea by several months, has never been described
by any explorer. It can only be said that the coastal plain
and range of Midian are continued, the former becoming, if
anything, more barren, and the latter declining in elevation,
but remaining abrupt.
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hamdh itself cuts through the
coastal range, coming from the ! Aweiridh Jiarrah on the one
hand and the Kheibar harrah on the other {see p. 6). If we
may judge by the experience of travellers on the main
caravan-tracks which cross this district, from W ejh to el- Ala,
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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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