"نجد الجنوبية: رحلة إلى الخرج والأفلاج والسليل ووادي الدواسر في سنة ١٩١٨." [ظ‎‎٣‎٥] (١٠٠/٧٥)

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Badia, Fuhail containing 200 and the other section 150 in
habitants ; between them lies a considerable but scattered group
of ruined qasrs along the left bank of the torrent.
Between Haddar and the semicircular escarpment two lower
ridges called Shab and Farda intervene, the former ending in a
prominent headland known as Khashm 8hab while the latter
comprises two fantastic weathern-worn crags connected by a
low saddle. Between these ridges the two depressions of Dahla
and Shaib Nisaq run down from the plateau towards the Hasraj,
while between the Farda ridge and the escarpment behind it
runs a ravine called Shaib Turaifa rising in some rough hillocks
connecting the ridge and escarpment and running down to join
the Hasraj in the neighbourhood of the Haddar gorge. From
the top of the escarpment extends a wide triangular tableland
separating the Haddar area from that of Hamar with its apex
at the headland marking the extremity of the semicircular
escarpment; over this plateau lies a short cut between the two
oases practicable only for foot passengers and lightly loaded
dhaluls owing to the steep ascent and descent on either side.
The course actually taken by us on the day after our arrival
at Haddar lay nearly due north diagonally across the Dahla
Wisaq and Turaifa close under Khashm Shab and the more
northerly of the Farda crags and then over the rough hillock tract
already mentioned, which spreads over practically the whole
area between the escarpment and the western rim of Tuwaiq,
along the semicircular escarpment to its headland extremity
called Khashm Khartam, fourteen miles from Haddar. From
this point 3,350 feet above sea-level with the gaunt headland
towering another 300 feet or so above the road we had a magni
ficent view of the country westward of Tuwaiq. A narrow
ledge, over which the road runs down to the valley of Hamar on
the other side, connects the headland with a confused mass of
hilly ground extending only two or three miles to the western
rim of Tuwaiq beyond which lies the vast sand expanse of Nafudh
Dahi running north-east to south-west more or less parallel
to Tuwaiq behind a narrow strip of plain. Beyond it again
lay the mountains of Nejd proper—Hadhb Dawasir far away
to the south-west, the bold mountain mass of Hasat Qahtan,
also seen on my journey to Taif, the low barrier of the Ardh
range to the west and a large mountain mass called Samakh to