The survey of Eastern Palestine : memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, archaeology, etc.

Abstract

This survey was conducted on the second half of the year 1881, by a party of British military people. Illustrated work, with geographic names given exactly as were written down by Mikhail Kassatly, the scribe of the party, with a real hard try to explain the meaning of the Arabic name despite it is not easy as far as Arabic roots have so many meanings in one stated word.