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96 EASTERN ROUTES

miles.
total. 3tagea.
a patch, of vegetation. Raunkiaer only mentions
one, with a parapet of loose stones. Has time
from Koweit =50 hrs. 41 min.
[From Safah a track taken by Shakespear in 1910
leads NW. to Hafar (see p. 91), distant 73 m. ; it
follows the Fuleij el-Janublyah for the last 22 m.
A second track runs S. (Shakespearjcoming from
Koweit in 1913). Passing the wells of El-Qarra',
25 m., it turns SW. by S. to Khabrat el-Kummah,
55 m. (80 m. from Safah), whence it runs SW. for
about 70 m. Shakespear, following it to Mejriyah,
travelled parallel with Raunkiaer’s track at a
distance of 40-50 m.; it again turns SW. by
S. at the wells of Ghayyiyah, 20 m. beyond the
Dahanah zone and 30 m. from Mejriyah, and joins
the Zilfi-Riyadh route near Mejma\]
Dir. SW. by W. crossing a ridge and passing through
a long valley called Shiri. After another ridge,
a fresh valley-system is entered.
18 m. Isolated group of rocks, close on 1., sur­

mounted by a cairn marking a pilgrim’s
grave. Leaving floor of valley on r., route
passes a series of spurs on N., then mounts
Summdn plateau (see I, p. 293) where the
valley expands, and is called
6 m. Jalta. Over Summan SW. by W.
10 m. Redlf ez-Zor, a hollow with scrub growth.
A little farther on, a similar hollow, named Jau
(locally pronounced Yo) Soiueir, is seen on l.
3 m. Jau ez-Zor, a third valley. Again across
Summan.
10 m. Jirabqah, a hollow where water'stands after
rain.
6 m. Sa:ddni, a depression resembling Redlf
ez-Z5r ; 3 more hollows passed a few miles
apart, then over rugged desert surface inter­
rupted by hollows, which in about 4 hrs.
becomes flatter.
23 m. Barbakh, a small hollow with clay bottom.
6 m. Saflyah, a similar hollow. Across undulating
ground, with occasional sand-dunes.
6 m. Khor Jindellyat Abul-Asher, a large hollow.