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RO TE 10: KOWEIT—ZILFI 95

miles.
total, stages. .
30 30 Tawil (or possibly Themilat el-Arbid; see Route No. 9,
p. 93), group of about 12 wells with sweet water
at 30-40 ft., a few miles W. of Warah hill.

[The first stage or two may be varied by using
different wells. There is a group of 100 wells
a mile or so E. of Warah hill, but a more usual
halting-place is Subeihlyah, 32 m. S. of Koweit ■
and 20 m. from the sea, where there is a scattered
t
group of about 100 wells with water at 18 ft. or
less. Another course (cp. 93) is to make for the wells
of Jadadlyah 10 m. SW. of Koweit and 2 m. E. of
the Suleiblyah group of wells ; but the Jadadlyah
water is the better. After this the Kubeidah (or
Kabd) plateau is traversed, and the hills of Mina-
qlsh passed on their S. side at 34 m. from Koweit;
near Khabrat ed-Dawlsh the Shaqq depression is
crossed into a desolate plain, Qara\ the main
route being joined at about 95 m. from Koweit
in the district of Mujdeir.]
Dir. WSW.

10 m. Umm Kadlr, a shallow well in a hollow not
yielding water in summer.
Dir. SSW., passing successively undulating steppe
country, a flat tract, and a district with scrub.
25 m. Shaqq depression entered and crossed into
the Qara1 plain. !
40 m. The Dibdibah zone entered in the district of
Mujdeir.
14 m. Wadi Suban, running E., with steep r. bank.
In about an hour two water-courses are
passed, running E.; then, for about 3 hrs.,
a flatter country overgrown with scrub.
14 m. End of the Dibdibah zone. Track now
enters stony hill country with projecting
rocks, crosses a hollow and ascends a
ridge from which a view is obtained into
a cauldron-shaped valley with high steep
Q _ sides on the N. and W.
39 109 Safah, group of about 20 wells; sweet water at depth
of over 100 ft. (Shakespear , 19 fathoms ;
Raunkiaer, c. 30 metres). The wells are near