Excerpt from Report on Trade Conditions in Asiatic Turkey Between Beirut and Alexandria in Egypt are the small ports Of Yafa (j affa) and Haifa. Yafa, which is the gateway to Jerusalem, has no harbor and furnishes few commercial facilities. It has a large pas senger traffic of pilgrims and tourists and, notwithstanding the lack Of facilities, has a considerable quantity of freight, the bulk Of which is carried by the railway to Jerusalem. Its volume of exports and imports amounts to annually. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.