'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [832] (887/1050)
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832
HINDIYAH
Name.
Position.
'Abd 'Auniyat Canal
Tawairij
Takes off from the
right bank about
3 miles bslow the
Dawaihiyah canal.
Nature.
A canal similar to the
last, on which it
apparently con
verges, for upon the
Karbala-Tawairij
road the two are
less than 2 miles
apart.
Chiefly on the right
bank, 1 mile
below the 'Abd
'Aunivat canal.
R emarks.
See 1 article Tawairij
former has 400, the
latter 100 inhabit
ants. Here are
poplar trees and
cultivation of wheat,
barley, mash and
millet : Bani 'Aufii
has also a date
grove. On both
sides of the Dawai-
h~yah are the
Maula tribe (400
souls), who own
date groves and
work as boatmen.
Similar to the Msho-
rab canal. Midway
between the Dawai
hiyah and the 'Abd
'Auniyat, near the
road is a village
called A1 Bii Sah-
wah of about 250
inhabitants: the
people are garden
ers, cultivators
and boatmen. A
mile and a half
from Al Bli Sahwah
on the way to Tawai
rij is Ibn 'Amti
a small hamlet of
market gardeners;
and about 2 miles
south-west of
Tawairij on a
branch of the 'Abd
'Auniyat is Rajibah,
a place partly culti
vated by the Jalihah
where there are some
gardens.
As Tawairij is ap
proached wooding
and cultivation in
crease upon the
banks of the
Hindlyah. At the
town itself the
stream is about
150 yards wide aud
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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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