'File 11/4 Diaries and reports: Mr Dowson's notes on Smail - dates, etc' [‎44r] (89/262)

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> ^ o«e«e of Jaan apo scattered along the bade of
the w ter- oour. ee. vator, ae noted above, le supplied fro*
un : > ...d channels, leading froa soureee, higher up in
bed af the vgdl* many oaees therm arm In all Uman is
dUfiouIt to ocwnjosturm. From the mouth of tbs isdiSmmyil,
a ® ^ ar &6 » including^ Hub, a dlstAns* of about
^ ^ n * thsrm are about 20 oases, if the big group of pal,ms
^ cooslder^i as one. fhs emlltmt ones, e.g«
-lltqsh si HadarJ^rsh, probably contain no more than about
300 pal**] but the tamgyil t roup probably contains orer
100*000 p&lae. Khaudh, Finish, Bidbid, anti Sarur i^obably
contain eou^thin^ like 20,000 p&lnc each* The iaing
twelve o&ses mj be put down, at a guess, at an average of
5,000 palms oach* ihc total swims in the valley, as far as*
and including:, jfg/jf therefore, may oe estimated roaghly
ae ftb^ut 240,0^0* lor purposes of comparison, it may be men*
tionsd thet the nuater of date palm?, on the Xr&ci portion
of the banks of the :hatt al Arab is about 7,005,>X#0. How
:^ny dste palms there sre between snd the aebal .Ahndhar
Is not known. It ie probable th t U yy are less than below
^b. But the wgft* 5 amyrll, though It is certainly the richest
in pi^las of a^y of the Uaatn widy&n, yet It is only one of
about forty ^ueh, lying fcetrsen %r ^asandam and Rm al aaddi
and fiost of those* probably contain some palm* . ft Is hazardous
to ^omjeeture wh^t is the total palm population of Uman,
excluding the coast, but / 1 , 200,^)0 la a more or lees
intelligent gtkese* if the coastal rcglc^n be included, the
number of pala^ might amount to 2,500,000, for date pelms
grow alcmw the Bat&nah in a continuous belt from Al all to
cohgr. the first twelve miles of this belt, be*;in .lag at
n H£l f were seen] but several and reliable imfcraamU state
that‘this portion is typical of the whole. Ihe average width
of the p&lm belt was generally put down at a mile, to cllow
tor osrdcmable loe^l priue, half a mile has been considered the
width ior purposes of calmtOatimm* the length of the belt of
XOo miles is verifiable from the map* ihaa. Urn one fusion
appear* tb t the Satanah mate maidens cover 50 ’•lies*
fh«y eontela Jb*blv«r, 500 ,000 peO*.. Jt 1 * Uiue
?roba. 0 Jjr t.ne pltfMtibftMti thlrt blggMt p.l*.rjr la th.
world, da«rah and fafllllt bcimg the ethsre» .
in there necessarily rough oaleul^tiona, the number
of calms per acre is reckoned at 50. in the adl Sarny il, the
Arn so h 'g, th ; t. If they were oloear than 30 feet jtjfdAho
each other, the fronts of neighboring pfviaa would greatly
3ntermiagle* la the hat^nah, the mime are le^a vigorous] *& f
in the gaider*a where there &re no fruit tre^s, they fre
If at closer intervals. However, in consideration of the larve
number of fruit trees at the southern end of the belt, of the
tare clearlfjgs amongst the pslme, and or the uncultivated
■—itllw «tf a * n J 01 th. b.sriafc ptxmm&f/## ? .r
acre for tne whole an&a 1 # probably not too low.
the dste §&r&eae of the ’ adi ae&yll are rewinlaeent
of south Morocco: the rocky, pleturesque roenery, the white
elathe* and f tl%l, the plastered irrlgu tiog channels, the
underground d,teams. Mi the tOSg ft&LAt t forces do you do*?’
^re common to both. And if the 'j^yil t*> like -.oioceo, then
the bat^n&h has points of r^se^lenee with the ...hat* al Arab