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82 NORTHERN ROUTES
miles.
total, stages. . , , . ,
316$ 53* Qulban et-Tayyim; water-holes 1 m. to It.
3 m. KhaJbrah Mundasah, rain-pool.
6 m. Jelf Humeimi, ridge of low sandstone.
17 m. Jeithaniyah, village ; wells and patches of
cultivation.
6 m. Suweifli, deserted village ; wells 2 m. N., with
stone house belonging to a Meshed family.
Flat stony ground.
2 m. Track to Buka and the Darb Zobeidah on left.
On by stony track through Jebel Samra for
7 m. to end of route.
357£ 41 HA’IL, town; see I, pp. 384 ff. The town is entered by
the Medina Gate.

ROUTE 5

NEJEF—HAZID—HA’IL

Authorities: Wallin, 1848, Leachraan (1910, section Bir Samlt to Majamir, and
1912 for Hazil itself), and Miss Bell, 1914, from a point N. of Bir Tavyim (or
Qulban et-Tayyim) to Ha’il (see Route No. 4).
Direction : SW. by S.
Distance : Crow-fly, about 340 miles ; road, 377. Both direction and distance are
affected by the change in the conjectured position of the wells of Hazil, which
has been moved two degrees to the W. since Wallin's time. Intermediate
distances between Hazil and Ha’il must be regarded as approximate, since
they depend upon a reduction of Wallin’s hours into miles, and his rate of
progress is not exactly known.
Character and Supplies : see p. 28.
miles.
total, stages. ____
NEJEF, town of ‘Iraq; see above, p. 73.
For details of the track from Nejef to Qasr er-Ruheimi,
see Route No. 3, p. 73.

32 32 Qasr er-Ruheimi, small village with one spring of bitter
water. Here route diverges from the Darb
Zobeidah, which goes off S. by E.
Dir. SW. by W. across a broad open valley, then into
the stony Hajarah desert.