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182 WESTERN ROUTES

ROUTE 30

MUWEILAH—TEBUK

Authority: Wallin, 1848.
General Direction: NE.
Distance: Crow, fly, 9S miles ; road, 115 miles.
Character and Supplies : see p. 49.

miles.
total, stages.
Muweilah, village of some seventy to eighty families,
with castle ; see I, p. 112.
Dir. NE. over the sterile sandy plain of the shore,
close beside the Egyptian pilgrim route.
3 m. (1 hr.) Enter Qdmirah, a flat valley bear­
ing slight vegetation.
H m. (1 hr.) Low sandstone hillocks and masses
of conglomerate begin.
Continue through gently ascending valleys
between hills of similar formation, but rather
i darker in colour, which gradually increase in
height.
:
J IS 18 Weiwi, small valley (6 hrs. from Muweilah).
i Pass through small valley and enter a larger one,
:
I Wadi Sadr, which, formed by the accession of
various ravines and smaller valleys running down
from between the peaks of the main chain, gradu­
ally expands into an open plain along its foot.
The ravines in the mountains are steep and
rugged, but afford plenty of water, and contain
some date-palms. The Wadi Sadr, being one of
the most fertile spots in the coastal plain, is much
frequented by Bedouins ; the soil of the plain is
soft sand.
Dir. NNE. across the plain of Sadr, towards Jebel
i
Harb.
i 9 m. (3 hrs.) Jebel Harb.
Skirt Jebel Harb, the steep flank of which
turns at an . angle to the ENE., giving
rise to a wide opening through the main
chain.