"الطرق في بلاد فارس" [‎٣‎٠‎٥] (٨٥٢/٣٣٨)

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Houte No. 84— contd.
7 HAURAH .. IS m. North by west. The
rovite continues clown
]V]~ m the w5di -
J At mile 7, Mashhad, the site of extensive ruins.
The route crosses a slight spur of the Wadi 'Am.
' At mile 11. Adah, a village with a well.
The route crosses a dreary waste of sand, past the villa 0 o
of Karan.
\t mile. 14, Badrah.
,\t mile 18, Haurah. a huge castle o seven storeys covering
an acre of ground, dominating a very small village, surrounded
by palm groves.
o chtRAM •• 24 m. East-north-east.
S SHIBAU A mile or so below
r Haurah the route
enters 1 the Wadi Hadhramaut, here about 8 miles broad from
cliff to cliff and receiving collateral valleys from all sides
forming aK it were a great basin. The valley bed to m.le 11 »
a barren stretch of sand.
At mile 2, Ghanlma (R).
At mile oi^thTwMiHenan. with a good-sized viUageot the
sanie name on its right bank about 6 miles up. The Wad,
Alcnwab ioins the Wadi Hadhramaut here. . , , ,
At m. 10, Fnrnth ; good well of brackish water raised by two
mirs of bullocks, one on each side of the well.
P< At about mile 11, valley suddenly f^m
groves with patches of lucerne ; all irrigated with water from
^ AtTnile 12 town of Al-Qatan ; houses built mostly of stone,
Dopulation about 2,000 souls ; there is a bazar ; also a large castle,
and con^d 'erable elate cultivation. Some cereals are also grown.
The water-supply is'good and abundant from numerous wells
tL route Lw lies over sand ; white dome of the tomb of
Shaikh Abu Bakr -bin-Hasan . near which is a roofed-in wel.
Between here and Shiham is land that, has once been tmgatod.
but now abandoned owing to the advancing san ,
At mile 20, Kashamir ; ruins. ^
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