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MAQ—MAQ
of 1| fathoms lies nearly half a mile eastward of the outer islet. Maqatin is resorted
to by native trading vessels for shelter during the north-east monsoon; the anchorage
is on the western side of the islets where the water is perfectly smooth when blowing
hard from the north-eastward. The islets are white from the guano deposited by sea
birds which frequent them in great numbers ; it is used by the natives for agricultural
purposes. Maqatin may be easily known by two black hills immediately eastward of it
and close to the sea ; there are others 3 or 4 miles further eastward but not so distinctly
separate as the two mentioned.
At 6 miles eastward of Maqatin is a rocky point named Sambahiyah and for 13 miles
beyond, as far as Ilautah village, a low sandy shore with rocky points prevails; it is
also low westward of Maqatin and in many parts continues low for many miles inland
almost reaching the borders of the Fadhli mountains.
MAQATIN-AS-SAGHIR—
A small anchorage for boats, 5 miles westward of Maqatin.
the bottom rocky.
The water is shallow and
MAQAZZ (Al)—
A tract of desert some 12 or 15 miles to the north-east of Madain Salih and traversed
by the route from that village to Tayma. The Sha'ib-al-Maqazz, which is full of ghadha
bushes, forms the limit of the tract on the north-eastern side, dividing it from that of Al-
Hadhb-al-Hamar. A gorge divides Ar-Maqazz from Ar-Ruqqab, to the south-west.
Thus defined, Al-Maqazz is about 3 miles from south-west to north-east; it is volcaniCj
the hills being covered with black stones.— {Huber, March, 1884.)
MAQBARAH—
One of the islets composing Jazair Suwadi {q. v.), off the Batinah coast of the 'Oman
Sultanate.
MAQBARAH (F ariq-al)—-
One of the quarters of Qatlf town {q. v.), in Eastern Arabia.
MAQDAM (A l)—
A village in the Hasa Oasis {q. v.), in Eastern Arabia.
MAQDAM (Khan) (or Mijdam)—
A place in Iraq on the left bank of the Euphrates river about 30 miles by water
below 1 allujah and 38 miles above Musaiyib. There is no permanent habitation of
any sort here, not even a hut; but a collection of tents may sometimes be seen of the
Zoba^ tribe. At this place the left bank of the Euphrates is shelving and very sandy,
the right bank steep ; the distance between the two is nearly 200 yards* There is a
small wood on the left bank about half a mile long by 150 yards deep, consisting of
medium sized trees of Euphrates poplar and surrounded by a belt of tamarisks: it is
said to be the property of a resident of Baghdad City. Goods from Hit, chiefly lime
and juss, are sometimes deposited by boats at Khan Maqdam for removal to Baghdad by
camel caravan.
MAQHAM—
A small hamlet in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Bani Ghafir (q.v.), in the Western Hajar district of the 'Oman
bultanate.
MAQLA (AL B in)—
0f ?u ahrain a ? d Qat f , cIaimin g t0 be a branch of the Al Bu Kuwarah,—
9nnnil ^ Ver correctness of the claim is denied. The Al Bin-Maqla are Malik!
Si tb, they are pearl divers and pearl merchants by occupation; and they own 100
houses at Halat Abu Mahur in Bahrain and 10 houses at Wakrah in Qatar. A small
sub-division of the Al Bm-Maqla in Bahrain are called Al B j Khanrs.