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462 APPENDIX.
APPENDIX.
Mcdnvat-en-nabi (the pro-
Yembu’ (it bubbles up), where there Jathrippa; Yathrib, or
are several phet’s city), 25° 13' N., 40° 3' E. (Jomard.)
springs. Thence lo
Maco-raba, Mekkah, 21° 28' 17" N., 40° 15' 9" E.
’Udeibiyah (probably ’Udheibfyah, i.e
■ possessed of
good water), a town so named. Thence to
(De la Badi'a.)
Ewwel Dehna (the first plain), a town so called. Jiddah, 21° 28' 56" N., 39° 20' E.
Thence to The data here given will show what approximation
made before the survey by the Pa-
W&sit (the middlemost). At this station lamp was
s are to accuracy
lighted, and cannon fired off. Thence to
linurus.
Bedr [Honein]. Thence to
Khabeb-el-bizzah (strips of cloth), an extensive plain.
Thence to
Ghi'k, a place on the sea-shore. Thence to II.
’AkabahWaddan (the ascent of Wadd^n). Thence to
Notes on a Collection of Plants transmitted by Lieut.
Rabigh, the place where the ihram is put on. In
J. R. Wellsted. By John Lindley, Esq., F.R.S., &c.
its neighbourhood is Jolifah*, also called Muhei’ahf.
Here all the routes to Mecca, six days distant, unite. “The plants collected by Lieut. Wellsted are all from
the Tehama, an unexplored tract between the penin­
sula of Sinai' and Yemen; bounded on the north by
The principal ancient towns between Allah and R&s Mohammed, and on the south by Jiddah. The
Jiddah are—
collection does much credit to the industry and scien­
-dElath, Elath, or Ezion-Geber, 29° 30' 58" N., 35°
tific devotion of this officer; but, as might be expected
5' E. (Riippell.)
from the nature of the country explored, possesses
Madian at Moghait Shoaib, 27° 40' 21" N., 35°35'
little of novelty or importance. It is chiefly interest­
E. (id.)
's as connecting the vegetation of Sinai and Egypt
Raunath near Istabil ’Antar, Leucc Come (Albus
with that of Arabia Felix.
Pagus), at Haura. Jambia; Yambo’, 24° 7' 6'', 3S°
“ The whole tract to which the collection refers ap-
27' (De la Badia).
pears to be extremely sterile; with the exception
the almond, of which some specimens have been pre­
* Hajefeh, according to M. Bianchi (Recueil de Voy. ii. 153), but served, there is no species of any interest to man ; nor
this is a strange oversight. Burckhardt ls there any other tree whatever except the Thuja
f This itinerary varies somewhat from that given by complete
(Travels in Arabia, p. 455): it may also be considered as more onentalisy of which some fragments have been sent
home.