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4 EASTERN ROUTES
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miles.
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total, stages.
£ m. Batin bends to left; bank very high on W.
li m. Valley, Sha‘lb TJmm esh-Shaltar on E. In the
! next mile 10 old wells are passed.
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; 3J m. Qulban I bn Towala.
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1 6£ m. Valley on left, Umm es-Sidrah.
5 m. Bareikhab, with an old reservoir, a big square
1
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tank with steps on all sides, said to be 24-
“
1
30 ft. deep, the sides smooth and finely
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i plastered.
i m. Khashm eth-Thamami.
i
) 3 m. Valley at approach to Dahanah.
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44 m. Valley crossed and top of Dahanah reached,
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where there is a cairn. The Dahanah is here
\ a narrow belt crossing and blocking the
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Batin. At the top, alternative track from
I
: Kasham eth-Thamami comes in.
< 94 m. End of Dahanah. .
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3§ m. Sha‘ib Tayyib Ism ; 25 wells, sweet water at
18 ft.
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1 2f m. Sandy plain, Dikakah.
\ 71 m. Big water-course, Sha'ib Hisali, crossed.
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1 Stony country, called Teisiyah, is traversed.
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11J m. Route descends first shelf from Haqai
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(Hagai).
'• 14 m. Beginning of descent of second shelf.
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. 1 1 m. The valley is reached between the ridges of
* ■ Haqai and Asiyah. Wells are numerous
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: but rather shallow; water clean, though
i brackish.
•; 280£ 126 Ajibbah (or Jibbah). Wells.
[For a variant description, from native information,
of the section of the route between Hafar
and Ajibbah see below, p. 94. From Ajibbah
a track forks SE. to Zilfi.]
Dir. continues SW.
H m. Route enters Nefud; then over hard sand and
between dunes, through seven nefud tracts
separated by strips of stony plain a mile or
two broad (i.e. dahanah country), and called
Madhur, Buweitir, ‘Amar, Beidha, Beisiyah,
Batrah and lArq el-Bilad.