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152 WESTERN ROUTES

miles.
total, stages.
6,000 ft: is reached in this section, and is men­
tioned by Doughty as ‘ the greatest height he had
passed hitherto in Arabia ’.
138 IS Beidha Nethll, watering-place.
[For the section from Beidha Nethll to Ha’il,
80 miles, sec Route No. 20, p. 146 f.]
218 SO HA’IL, town; see I, pp. 384 ff.
[Doughty, on another journey, followed a track
* *•*< from Hilyan to Qasr el-‘Ashruwat (18 m. from
Ha’il ; see above, Route No. 21, p. 151) some­
what south-east of the above, the stages being
as follows: 21 m., Jebel Habrdn, a peak in the
northern end of the Ivheibar Harrah ; 5 m., Bcidi,
a summer station of the Siba‘, with two ancient
well-pits ; 7 m., Jebel Bo thru (Bushra), thence
across a district called the Sha'bah (a plain
of gritty sand with pasturage of short coarse
grass) ; 60 m., Jussa, a hamlet of six households,
to which the tribes come for 3 months of the year
to raise crops and then return ; 10 m., Aqillah,
another outlying corn-settlement; 24 m., Qasr
el-‘Ashruwat.]

ROUTE 22

MEDINA—HA’IL

fe. Authority: Doughty, 1S77-S; and Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.
Direction : NE. by E.
Distances: Crowfiy, 243 miles ; road, 275 miles.
Character and Supplies : see pp. 45 tf.

miles.
total, stages.
MEDINA, town ; see I, p. 116 f.
Dir. E., across a barren, undulating, stony plain.
44 m. Abu Rasheid, settlement with a large mosque;
irrigation by water channels ; thence over
level desert.

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