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AWA-AWA
close to the village of Sama'iyah, and the end of the pass is only about 12 miles from
Ibra.
'AWAINAT—
A coastal village in the Sohar Wilayat (q. v.),
'AWAINAT BIN HUSAIN—
A well six miles inland from the village of Dha'ain [q. v.) on the eastern coast of Qatar.
See also interior of Qatar.
AWAINAT HASAN—
A Bedouin camping-ground, with a well, in the interior of Qatar {q. v.),
'AWAINAT-ASH-SHUY UKH—
A Bedouin camping-ground, with a well, in the interior of Qatar (q. v.).
'AWAINTDH—
See 'Aridh (District).
' AW AIRAT-AL-K ABI RAH—
An agricultural tract in the Karbala Qadha (q. v.).
'AWAIRAT-AS-SAGHlRAH—
An agricultural tract in the Karbala Qadha (q. v.).
AWAIRIDH (A l)—.
The northern arm of the Jabal 'Aja, which extends to the north of Hail, in Jabal
Shammar.— {Doughty.)
'AWAIRIDH (H arbat-al.)—
A mountainous, lava tract, which extends over some 165 miles, its greatest breadth
being about 25 miles, and lies immediately to the south-west of a line drawn between
Tabuk and Madain Salih. It is divided, from south-west to north-east, into three
sections by the two watercourses, Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ramuthah and Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hamatah. The upper
member of 'Awairidh, namely that lying nearest to Tabuk, is nearly 40 miles long
and is named Harraltas-Sidiniyln, of which the platform consists of plain and
ravine. The middle section is known as Al Khthurra, and is about 45 miles long. The
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ramuthah descends from the coast side of the harrdh, passing between the two
hills named Shaiban and Witr, and trending north-eastwards till it cuts the Hajj route,
where it is counted the border of the MawahTb, the furthest of the southern 'Anazah.
From the north-east of the Harrat-al-'Awairidh descends a main vaUey, Al-Akhdhar,
to the north-westward. Both of the foregoing harrahs are in the dirah of the Bam'
'Ativah The third and southernmost harrah which is about 80 miles long, is a prodi
gious fragment of old volcanic matter, with a multitude of crater hills upon a platform
mountain of sandstone. The two highest peaks in this section appar to be those of
Fawarah and Hawairah, which rise precipitately to a height of about 2,000 feet above
the desert on the western side of the plain of Al-Hajar. The mean height of the lava
floods in the northern parts of this section is about 5,000 feet, the summit of Jabal
Anaz the greatest of the hillidn, being 7,600 feet. Between the middle and the
southern sections is the Jau, a hollow plain at the foot of the sandstone underclitts
of the harmh, shelving from the eastward, the mouth upon that side being more or less
closed by certain sandstone [crags. Raiders use this track, thus avoiding the passage
of the harrah, which is unknown to themselves, and difficult for any but home-born
dhaluU The route between AL Wajj and Tabuk also passes through here, and is
reckoned at seven days for loaded camels.— [Doughty.)
'AWAISAH—
A group of wells in Kharmah (q. v.) in the Hasa district.
Palgrave mentions a group of a dozen or more wells, named Oweysit ('Awaisah),
between Riyadh and Al-Hasa. He describes them as lying in a huge natural basin,