"بعثة لإجراء عملية مسح لنهري دجلة والفرات، تم تنفيذها بأمر من الحكومة البريطانية، في السنوات ١٨٣٥، ١٨٣٦، ١٨٣٧؛ تسبقها إشعارات جغرافية وتاريخية للمناطق الواقعة بين نهري النيل والسند. في أربعة مجلّدات. مع أربع عشرة خريطة ورسمًا، ومزينة بثلاث عشرة لوحة، بالإضافة للعديد من الرسومات بالحفر على الخشب. المجلّد الأول." [‎٧‎٩‎٣] (٩٠٥/٨٩٣)

INDEX
793
Suwei'k, port (in Batna, district of Oman\
G45 ' ^
Suweinit, Wadi, or Bethel valley (north
ward of Jerusalem), 488
Swanets, a tribe of Mingrelia, 149
Syria between the rivers, or Aram-nahaim,
also Padan Aram, or Champagne Syria,
extended from Babylon to the Issus,
301
connects other countries geographi
cally and historically, 383
, its present shape and name, 383
, its superficies diversified, 384
, lakes and valley of the Dead Sea in,
384, 402
, mountain ridge and water-shed of,
384
, principal branches of, 384
, southern slope of, shown by the Nahr
Lietani, 398, 399
, general observations upon, 406
, now in four pashaliks, formerly in five
subdivisions, 406
, climate of, various, 533
, cold region of, 533
, climate of the coast of, 533, 534
• , soil of the highlands, plains, deserts,
&c., of, 535
, alluvium deposit in, 535
, neglected tracts in (called Barr by the
Arabs), described, 535
, desert tracts of, 536
, minerals of, 536
, camel and other domestic animals of,
536
, wild animals of, 536
• , vegetable productions of, 537
, birds of prey, and other birds of, 537
, grains cidtivated in, 537
, imports and trade of, 538
, capabilities of the country, 538
, comparative geography of, 539
, ancient kingdoms of, 540
, ancient people of, from two stocks,
Ham and Shem, 541
, language of the ancient people, branch
of the Aramaic, 541
, ancient people, atNabulus, and among
the Ansarians, 542
-, conquests and mixtures of the people
in, 544
, Arabs and other nomadic people of,
545
, connexion with Assyria, 544
, No wars, or gipsies, in south-eastern,
545
, Jews remaining in, their state and
number, 545, 546
, manners, &c., of the Mitaulis in, 547
, character and social state of, 547
, Christian sects of Armenians, Greeks,
and Jacobites in, 547
, Maronites in Syria, and their social
state, &c., 547, 548
, Druse districts and people in, 548
Syria, dwellings, religion, and social state of
the Druses in, 549, 550
, dress of the Druses in, 557
, silver horn worn by the Druse women,
557
, occupations of the Druse women, 557
, of the men of the Druses, 557
, Kurds in, dwellings, &c., of, 551
, Turkomans in, tents, social state, &c.,
of, 551, 552
• , Turks in, government, &c., of, 553
, nomadic and agricultural people of,
, administration of justice, tenures, and
inheritance in, 555
, taxes in, 556
, avanias and conscriptions in, 556
, state of the peasants in, 556
, population of, 558
, Haj caravan, from thence more nume
rous than that which goes from Africa, 688
of Damascus, founded by Kesen,
position of, 540
of Eehob, or Rohob, afterwards Gesh-
ur, position of, 541
of Tob, or Ish-tob, position of, 541
Syriac language, 83
Syrians, 111
, inhabitants of Syria between the
rivers, called, 118
, ancient, of Anti-Casius, &c., 543
, houses, dress, and occupations of
the, 543
, peaceable character of the, 544
, religious rites of the, 544
Syro-Medians (in Media Magna), 218
Szalkhat, ancient Salka, ruined town (south
eastward of Jebel Haouran), 508
Szalt, principal town of the Belka, descrip
tion of, 516
, scenery near, 516
Szananamein, Es, or the Images, 511
, Szolout Arabs (of El Ledja), 504
Szyr, ruins (south-eastward of Szalt), 517
Tab, river (between Khuzistan and Pars),
201, 202
, upper branches of, 208
Tabala, city, 311, 620, 632
Tabanlf chai, affluent (of the Angora sii),
296
Tabariyah, city, description of, 477
, lake, or Gennezareth, 400
Tabasseran, district (of Daghestan), 131,
132,133
Taberistan and Demyawend districts, taxes
of, 258
Tabiene (a division of Parthia), 225
Tabor, mount, 390, 464
Tabriz, plain of, 219
, city, capital of Azerbaijan, 220
, city, description of, 220
, trade of, 221
, temperature of, 221
Tadmor, mercantile advantages of, 526
, history of, 526