"ملف ‎٣/ ٤ كُتُب إلخ: الطرق في عُمان" [و‎‎٣‎٤] (٧٢/٦٧)

Route
No. ctf Stages 6c
total distance.
Nr
RABI 17^ niles.
Route follows the bed of the wadi.
At 9 m.the village of KHAN just below which is a
tcA'er called Rurj ash Shikairi on a peak 200 feet
high on the right bank of the wadi ;it is joined by
a stone wall to a tower lower down.
At 16 miles a valley enters from the south-west I
mile up which is t-he village of WASIT. Close to the
junction of the two valleys lie the hamlets of JCHAW-
AIRIJ ANH HAIL and RABI. At all three places there
are dates, whilst at the first and third there is
supply of various kinds of grain At KHAWAIRIJ the
stream is copious though never more than a few inches
deep. Below that point it disappears and reappears
at intervals. There is also a fort and two towers
there.
3 KHURUS Xbi miles.
At I a m., the junction of the WADIS ABAILAH and
KITNAH. Route then traverses the ABAILAh plain, a
level expanse several miles in extant lying between
these two wadis just above where they join. The
HAWAITRAH plain is then crossed. At bl m., the vill
age of that name^ after which the route runs into
KHURUS between two parallel ridges.
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BAR AIM 16 miles.
Across the JAU plain, and thence,at about b miles,
between the two peaks called KHATMAT ASH SHIKLAH and
KHATMAT AS Sl TW KAD. A short distance to the east of
the former is a low red hill . At about 7 miles fro H
BARAIMI village the route crosses the iiUZDAILAK
plain.
At 17 m., the village of SU*ARAII, in the BARAI..I
u asis•
The oasis consists of 10 villages with an aggregate
population of about b,b00 souls. There are no baz
aars. The houses are of mud and date matting. There
is a square fort built of sun-dried bricks. It is
about IDO feet square, v,ith & tower 40 ft. high at
each corner. A ditch about 2b ft. broad surrounds
the place. The curtain walls are 20 ft. high, and
the ditch is faced with brick. There;/ are two wells
inside yielding good and abundant water.
In the oasis are many streams of running water
brought from the hills by means of falaj .