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Eoute No. 113— contd.
both of which places the jungle gives place to cultivation. At
mile 6Jis Kuhlan, or Dar-ud-Daiman. Camping ground north
east of the village, and south of Jabal Kuhlan on a saddle between
that hill and Jabal Sahabah. An abundant supply of good water
is obtained from the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ma'din (called here Ghail Akashi),
the stream being 4' wide, 6"deep and flowing at 3 miles per hour!
Both banks are covered with cultivation and palm groves.
Jowzri, millet and livestock are procurable. Karbi and wood
plentiful. Tamarisk wood in profusion. The village of Khasaja
is on the left bank.
5 MAFALIS .. 7 m. From here onwards
the country is very
m * fertile, with all kinds of
grain and fruit in their seasons. There are cattle, sheep and goats
in plenty. ^Numerous rills and. rivulets, some of them perennial,
flow along artificial channels and down the rocks. The track
is commanded from the mountains on either side.
From J. Kuhlan, the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ma'din takes a westward bend to
about mile f. The track follows the river bed. Head of Ghail
Akashi reached about here, the nullah being somewhat marshy
at this point and much overgr wn with tamarisk. Right bank
20 feet high and abrupt. Cultivation and date-palms on both
banks. Several small Jurabi (Subaihi) villages passed on left
bank. Sh ab Moharrak, a small nullah, joins on right bank and
the wldi turns north, passing the Dubaini village of Tafih (30
houses) at mile 1^ on left bank. A little farther, the low h II
Gharaka is passed on left bank with a group of Masfari and Atawi
"v illages. At mile 2, Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ma 'bak, a broad sandy wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. with high
banks, and much tamarisk, joins from the west. There is a shal
low well in the wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. at this point. Right bank continues high
and much v ooded. Small village of Hajairi | mile distant on spur
of J. Raishash. A little farther up, the ravine Gharaka joins left
bank and another small village is passed. At mile 2J Ghorik,
a \ illage in two parts, of some 30 houses ancT towers, is passed
oil right bank. Well in nullah. A weekly market is held here.
Half mile to the west is the shrine of Sanawi with village and well.
Almost opposite, the small Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hajur joins and another shallow
Avell is passed. At mile 3 j a group of small Jurabi villages of one
0 r two towers apiece on small conical hills is passed on either bank
among groves of date-palms and irrigated fields. The right bank