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! 318 SOUTH-EASTERN ROUTES
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The following is a Branch Route from Manah (see above, p. 310)
to Adam (25 m.) :
miles.
total, stages.
MANAH, town; see I, p. 274 f.
.1 Dir. SSW. over plain gradually declining towards
the S., and sprinkled with dwarfed acacias,
brushwood, and desert herbage.
Cross Wadi Matayyin, a tributary of the
Wadi Halfein.
5 m. 11 zz, walled village with date-groves ;
20 permanent huts of the Beni Hadharmi
and Jannabah tribes, increased to about
50 dwellings in the date-season.

3 m. Cross Wadi Kalhu, containing a fine
stream in winter.
5 m. Bir el-Humeid (or Hameid), well in desert,
surrounded by thick vegetation ; said to
be half-way between Manah and Adam.
Continue SSW. over undulating plain.
6 m. Short range of hills, the route passing
through a dip between Jebel Sulakh on
the W. and Jebel Jladhmdr (or J. Mushmar)
on the E., which rise, destitute of vegetation,
to about 800 ft. Here is a cluster of hot
springs, from which irrigation conduits are
led to Adam, visible from this point to
the S.
0 m. ADAlM, the southernmost town and oasis
of the Oman Sultanate, pop. 3,000 ; see
I, p. 275.
[There is a camel caravan-route from Adam to
Mahot on the south-eastern coast of Oman (see I.
p. 278, and of. Route No. GO. p. 311 : crow-fiy
about 150 m. ; general direction S. by W.
Shortly after leaving Adam the route enters Wadi
J<dibit■. a tributary of Wadi Halfein. which is then
followed to within a short distance of the coast.
The route is well supplied with herbage and
seldom without water: there are said to be 30
recognized halting-places, and caravans take
8 to 10 days, It has never been traversed by
a European.]