"الطرق في بلاد فارس" [‎٣‎١‎٦] (٨٥٢/٣٤٩)

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Route No. 89~conld,
the plain of Rahab. Just before entering the plain of Rahab
there is, in the Wadi Akhdhar, a sheltered spot for a small bivou
ac under red sandstone bluffs. A short distance up from the
entrance of the gorge, just beyond a disused Bedouin cemetery,
are a pool of brackish water and a few surface runnels through
soil much impregnated with nitre. Track east -north-east,
acioss a broad plain strewn with small limestone slabs, strikes
Wadi Laika just before mile 24, passing a graveyard and cairn
on the right. 1 he gorge is followed north over some rather
difficult stony going, a pool of brackish water being reached
about a mile further on. Here the gorge opens to an amphi
theatre 400 yards broad with precipitous sides, except to the
north-north-east, the direction of the wadi. The winding
wadi is followed till at mile 28 Jol-al-Hasan is reached. Jol-
al-Hasan is a well-known bivouac for caravans. About a mile
from the camping ground is a small deep pool of good water,
i almetto grows in the vicinity and the country is thinly bushed.
•> HAID MARJAM . • 14 m. After a short curve
To cast . track follows
0 f , m ' , right bank of wddi
north past some good grass and tamarisk. At 'Ain-al-Khada-
ma, about mile 3, are some perennial springs in the bed.
The track leaves the wzdi north-east and rejoin it a mile
i urther on : some 2 miles further a scanty spring is passed. Tho
path leaves the wixh and rejoins at Sailah and Xetakh near some
palmetto clumps at mile 9. A good camping ground here, and
water available. The wddi curves east and the jiath cuts north
across the cord of the arc, rejoining it about mile 10, where a
track from Dathinah joins from the west. The path crosses
the wadi twice, bearing east-north-east, then turns north for
nearly 2 miles and to the east of Haid Marjam reaches some
pools, one of considerable size, near the junction of the Wadi
Kaham from the west.
BIR " BA " LIKA1VI -• 15m. Track follows roughly
the direction of the
, ' . wddi in an easterly
turn passing over two small plateaux on the ri^ht bank; the
second plateau is known as Jol-ar-Riz. Track crosses the wddi