"دليل الجزيرة العربية المجلد II" [‎١‎٤‎٨‎٤] (٦٨٨/٥٥٧)

QASIM
Position.
18 miles south-east
of Buraidah and 3
from the south
bank of Wadi-ar-
Rummah.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
10 miles west-north
west of Buraidah.
1 mile north of
Buraidah.
20 houses of mixed
Arabs.
PvEMABKS.
100 houses of mixed
Arabs mostly.
Dawasir.
100 houses of mixed
Arabs chiefly 'Ani-
zah, Harb and
Shammar.
The village is walled.
It contains half-a-
dozen shops and about
£rd of the houses
have upper storeys.
Dates, fruit cereals
vegetable are grown
by irrigation from
wells, 8 to 9 fathoms
deep of drinkable
water.
Shiqqah is really the
name of a depression
on the south side of
Jabal Sarah, 9 miles
long and containing
several villages of
which the principal
are Rafi'ah and Su-
failah the latter is
2 or 3 miles south-east
of the former vil
lage. There are ex
tensive date planta
tions, and wheat,
barley, millet, pome
granates, figs, pump
kins, radishes, and
onions are grown.
The wells are 7 or 8
fathoms deep. To the
west or south of the
village is a place call
ed Dhari with a salt
deposit. The water
of Shiqqah is gen
erally brackish and
the place is poor.
There are date planta
tions and orchards
irrigated from wells,
also the usual live
stock. This place is
said to mark the
orginal site of Bu
raidah.
See article Rass.
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