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'Handbook of Hejaz' [79r] (166/204)
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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Route No. 10.— MEDINA to MECCA (Darb esh-Sharqi).
Authority: Egyptian War Office, compared with Burton, 1854, and Burckhardt, 1815.
General Direction : South.
Distance : Crowfly, 220 miles ; road, 277 (or 267) miles.
Miles.
Total. Stages.
MEDINA {see p. 21).
Direction south-east. Track leaves Bab el-Misr, going over stony
plain. M two miles, joins Nejd highway in El-Ghadir. East o£
road Bir Rashid (well, and a whitewashed dome) is passed.
Cross
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
running north and south, going north-east out of
Medina basin. Stony ground, acacias.
6 miles. A bed of lava.
12 miles. Route turns east and follows course of broad
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
between steep hills. Water near surface ; a torrent in rain.
Some sparse vegetation.
16 miles. Route meets a wall of rock and turns south.
Direction south-west through a pass to seven miles. Crosses gravel
and clay to thirteen miles.
19 miles. Basin narrows, then widens to two miles broad.
24 miles. Direction south-west ; ascend two miles to rockv plateau.
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23 23 Ria esh-bhanfah, in a hollow.
Wells in
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
two miles from halt.
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- Content
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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- Title
- 'Handbook of Hejaz'
- Pages
- 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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