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ROUTE 4 : NEJEF—HA’IL 81

miles.
total, stages.
Dir. SW.
22 m. Jawarid, water-course, muddy and dry in
summer. ■
16 m. Route now enters the Wadi (or Sha‘ib) Hisb,
here a shallow valley with good pasture.
o m. Wadi Hisb is quitted.
22 m. Sheikhah hills crossed.
7 m. A flint-covered escarpment is descended into
the Batn, a wide low depression NW. to SE.,
about 26 m. broad, with scanty pasturage.

Stony country traversed, with low rocky
ridges.
29 m. The Batn is left ; from this point it is 35 m.
to Loqah.
1654 1474 Loqah, group of wells, 3-4 in use, with a good supply
of water at 90-150 ft.
7 m. Cross Wadi el-Khad. Water-holes reported
about 10 m. to W.
3 m. Jalta, natural dam in Wadi el-Khad ; water-
pools ; wadi is here left; 12 m. to end of stage.
1874 22 Wadi el-Khadd, water-pools and good pasture.
Dir. S. Soon after leaving wadi, pasture ceases : stony
ground, El-Hajarah, then begins, and after many
miles is succeeded by sand-slopes and flats.
16 m. Nefud el-Aqrab is entered and crossed for
64 m., when dir. is'changed to SSW.
194 m. A dahanah belt is entered, which continues
for 94 m.
154 m. JvJbb el-Muneishfi, small water-hole, dry in
summer ; 244 m. to Hayyaniyah.
263 754 Hayyaniyah, fort with two towers and garrison of a
few of the Emir of Hail's men. Well with good
supply at 150 ft. [Here Route No. 2, from Jauf
el-'Amr to Boreidah, is crossed ; see above, p. 71.]
Nefud entered. Patches of hard ground (jelad); sand
comparatively shallow for about 25m., then deeper
for 9 m., afterwards again becoming shallow.
34 m. El-Mejlis, big sand-hills, to E.

On for 17 m. by well-marked track, through
sand-hills to end of Nefud; then 24 m. to
end of stage.
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