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ROUTE 29 : MEDINA—MECCA

miles .
>fc n.1.
Dir. N. for a sliort distance.
225 Wadi LeimiVi village (or Medheiq) ; the
stream of water, and limes, poraec
dates are procurable ; see above, p.
of Route ^V).
Dir. SW. down the wadi.
3im. The wadi is left at a point win
a bend to r., by a difficult track
ridge of granite.
\ \ m. Solcih (or Sulah), a plain anion*
scattered villages and clumps ol
2 m. The track ascends a steep and di
it then runs across several small
divided by hills, and rises generally
14 m. Thmyctt el-Qutaf, a winding pa
a cutting, flanked by watch-towe
last hill-ridge before Mecca is re*
Thence a road through the M
Mu' abidcth) suburb and by the
Mafia cemetery to the Mafia Gai
23 JVddOCA, town; see I, pp. 123 ff.

03 CORDING TO DOUGHTY, FROM NATIVE I NFC
_ DfA, town; see I, p. 116 f.
z-u^rqiyah, village ; see above, p. 176 i
Route
'^'nah, village see above, p. 174 (m. 146 of
H6 of Route B).
n J abci7i; palms, water, and some ru
£j^CZ}i ;
(mC2Qn^elds and some ruins; see abo
aciste>°* Route ^* .
d/
7 can be n and some rums; the village of
rui^n 1- of road-
* El-Birk^? ■ see above. P- 174 (m. 238 of 1
_ ‘ part of t) is described as in Rukabah [1
(or higlr desert between Qaslm am
7* P. 174 (,*<?< 'Irq), ruins of a village ; se
4toute pv 2S7 of Route A) ancl p. 17S (l

a well in the midst

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