The present map (on the scale of ⅜ of an inch to 1 mile) represents a portion of Eastern Jaulân or Ez Zawîyeh esh Shurkîyeh and Western Haurân, and contains about 240 square miles. The whole of this country consists of a high plateau. It is bounded on the south-west by the hills of 'Ajlûn, and on the south by the Syrian Desert. In its extension from east to west it gradually slopes from the Jebel ed Drûs down to the western banks of the high table-lands of Jaulân, which overhang the eastern shore of the Lake of Tiberias; but it rises gradually from its southern to its northern limits, where occur the range of volcanic hills generally called Tellûl el Hesh, and the high lands of Jedûr.

The country shown in the map forms a part of the Liwah, the Mutasarrifîyeh or the Sanjak of the Haurân, whose Lieutenant-Governor or Mutasarrif resides at Sheikh Sa'ad. His jurisdiction, besides comprising the entire Haurân plateau, extends over the Jebel ed Drûs, 'Ajlûn, and the Jaulân; and his district is divided into several Kaimakâmîyehs, of which one is the Kamakâmîyeh of the Jaulân, with the seat of its government at El Kuneitrah. The Jaulân is further subdivided into three districts; viz.: (1) the northern part round El Kuneitrah, called Esh Sharah; (2) the southern and western part, Ez Zawîyeh el Ghurbîyeh; and (3) the eastern part, Ez Zawîyeh esh Shurkîyeh.