'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎447] (466/1050)

BOS-BOS
447
Name.
*
Position.
Houses and
inhabitant.
Remarks.
Sunub
2 miles south of
Falaij-ash-Sham.
s
80 house of Nabahi-
nah.
10 camels are owned
here, also 25 don
keys, 30 cattle and
60 sheep and goats.
Hammam-al-'Ali
2 miles south of
Falai j-as-Sham and
west of Sunub.
30 houses of Nabahi-
nah and others.
The people are cul
tivators and carriers ;
they possess 16
camels, 40 don
keys, 35 cattle and
100 sheep and goats.
'Awabi
4 miles south-west of
Falaij-ash-Sham.
10 houses of Tama-
timah.
7 donkeys and 20
sheep and goats.
Misfah-al-'Ali >
Misfah-as-Safil. J
*
Adjoin one another
2 miles west of
'Awabi.
80 houses of Bani
Raqad and Tama-
timah, also Rahbi-
yin and Siyabiyln.
45 donkeys, 40 cattle
and 60 ^ sheep and
goats.
Sa'al ..
2J miles west of
Misfah.
20 houses of
Siyabiyin.
This village is famed
for a vegetable
antidote to snake-
poison which the
inhabitants are said
to possess.
These hamlets, with the exception of Boshar Bin-'Amran, in which the houses are
mostly of stone, consist of date-branch huts with one or two buildings each of a better
class, constructed for purposes of defence. The total population of the whole tract is
apparently about 4,800 souls. The villages have separate date-grows.
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Boshar is celebrated for its hot springs of which the best and most frequented
for medical baths are those at the village of Ghallah : there is a spring also at one of the
Misfahs but it is too hot for use. In 1888 Barghash Sultan of Zanzibar, who was then
suffering from a fatal disease, visited 'Oman chiefly with the object of bathing in the
Boshar springs.
The distance of the nearest part of Boshar by road from Matrah is seven or eight
miles. &
BOSHAR BIN 'AMRAN.—
A village in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Boshar (g. v.),
BOSRA-AL-HARlRL—
A small village in Hauran, Syria, lying near the south-western edge of the lava tract
known as the Lejah, and at a distance of about 7 miles from the station of Ezra, on the
Hejaz railway. It consists of a number of houses, built roughly of basalt; and'was oc
cupied by Turkish troops during the |Druz rebellion in the autumn of 1910. Its
trade is in grain and sheep.— {Murphy.)
BOSRA-ESKI-SHAM.—
The ancient capital of Hauran, in Syria. It is situated about 24 miles by road east-
south-east from the important railway junction of Dera'a, on the Hejaz railway, with