"دليل الجزيرة العربية المجلد II" [‎١‎٥‎٣‎١] (٦٨٨/٦٠٤)

QOB-QRA
1531
Village.
Position.
On
which
bank.
Houses
and
inhabitants.
R emarks.
Fashrah
f
| an hour below
Raha.
Right ..
15 houses of
Dahaminah.
This place also is
considered to per
tain to the Ras-al-
Khaimah District
of Sharjah. There
are 300 date trees,
a few anmials and a
little cultivation.
Nuslah
} of an hour below
Fashrah, in a side
valley called Wadi
Nuslah.
Left
6 houses of
Dahaminah.
Likewise belongs to
Sharjah; dates
number 150. Wadi
Nuslah also contains
a village Induk
which consists of
about 14 houses of
Jalajilah.
Aswad
1 hour below Nus
lah ; here Wadi-
al-Qor emerges
from the hills and
enters Batinah.
Right ..
80 houses of
Washahat.
This place, which is 3
hours from the sea,
is regarded as belonging
to the Sultaaate
'Oman. The inhabi -
tants cultivate and have
5,000 date palms.
In a Wadi called Manai'i, closely connected with and possibly a tributary of Wadi-al;
'Qor, is a village Manai 'i, consisting of 10 houses of Dahaminah,'with date plantations-
and a Wadi called Sfai which joins Wadi-al-Qor near Nuslah contains some small
villages of Mazari.
At the head of the Wadi, above the highest village, are camping-ground places of
Bedouins of the Bani Ka 'ab and other tribes. Of the settled inhabitants about 400
appear to be subjects of the Sultan of 'Oman and 250 of the Shaikh of Sharjah.
Native informers state that the gradients of Wadi-al-Qor are easy and that there is
no rugged pass at the top ; they believe that a road for wheeled traffic could be made
up the valley without great difficulty, but the point must be regarded as doubtful.
• The route from Murair to Dhaid lies for the first part of the way in Wadi-al -Qor.
QORAH -
A hamlet in Wadi Mistal (q.v.), in the Western Hajar district of the 'Oman Sultanate.
QOZ-BIN-ASHRUFI (J ABAL)—
A hill or mound in the Barr-al -Qarah tract (q. v.), in Eastern Arabia.
QUA'AH*—
A barren sandy tract in the Kuwait Principality, bounded on the north by Kuwait
Bay, on the east by the sea, on the south by the district of 'Adan, and on the west by the
•Qra'ah is a common noun rather than a proper name ; it is used to denote any tract of land which ha s
been denuded of its natural vegetation. The district adjoining Kuwait Town naturally answers to this descrip
tion ; but the propriety of using Qra'ah in this case as a geographical expression is doubtful.
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