'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎741] (796/1050)

HAN IF AH
741
Name.
Dara'iyah
'Arjah .,
Shuyiikh (Batinash)
Riyadh.
Manfuhah
Position.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
On the left bank of
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hanifah 1
mile below 'Audah.
On the right bank of
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hanifah 3
miles below Dara
'iyah.
Chiefly on the left
bank of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
HanTfah 4 miles
below 'Arjah, but
part of the village
is on the opposite
side.
About 2 miles from
the left bank of
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hanifah at a
point 2 miles below
Batin-ash-Shuyukh,
On the left bank of
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hanifah 2 or
3 miles below Riy
adh from which it
is separated by an
enormous burial
ground.
100 houses, viz., 30 of
Sabai', 30 of Bani
TamTm and 40 of
inferior tribes.
100 houses, viz., 30
of the family of
Ibn Sa'ud and 70 of
inferior tribes.
450 houses, viz., 100
of 'Anizah, 50 of
Dawasir, 100 of
Qahtan, 50 of Bani
Tamim and 150 of
inferior tribes.
R emarks.
See article Dara'
iyah.
There are the usual
fruit trees and
cereals and the
dete palms are esti
mated at 15,000.
The wells vary in
depth between 4 and
12 fathoms.
The date groves be
long to the family of
Ibn Sa'ud ; there are
also other fruit trees
and cultivation of
lucerne cereals. The
dwellings are mostly
garden houses.
See article Riyadh.
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Manfuhah had in
1819 some good up-
per-storeyed houses
of mud and stone
with flat roofs.
Dates, wheat and
barley are the pre
sent staples, the
palms which are irri
gated from wells)
being estimated at
over 30,000 ; in 1819
cotton, maize, musk
melons, water
melons peaches and
figs were grown, and
brinjals, spinach
and clover were ob
tainable, but the
fruits were not of
good quality. The
wells vary in depth
from 4 to 12 fathoms
according to their