The desert of the Exodus : journeys on foot in the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings : undertaken in connexion with the ordnance survey of Sinai, and the Palestine exploration fund . st above our camp became verywinding, and continued so until we reached a broadopen place called the Aguleh, where there weresome palms and water. After this, it goes on in astraight line for an hour, then Avinds again for alittle distance, and ultimately, a very narrow,winding gorge, with grand precipitous sides, leadsto the head of the valley at Ain el Elyd, or theupper spring. Here is a stream of runnin
The desert of the Exodus : journeys on foot in the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings : undertaken in connexion with the ordnance survey of Sinai, and the Palestine exploration fund . st above our camp became verywinding, and continued so until we reached a broadopen place called the Aguleh, where there weresome palms and water. After this, it goes on in astraight line for an hour, then Avinds again for alittle distance, and ultimately, a very narrow,winding gorge, with grand precipitous sides, leadsto the head of the valley at Ain el Elyd, or theupper spring. Here is a stream of running water,with a few palm-trees, and the valley opens out intoa large plain covered with hills and vegetation (palmsand tamarisk trees), on which we encamped. Shortly after passing Ain el Elyd, we came to agroup of nawdims, those quaint beehive huts of whichI have before spoken. They stood on the hills to theleft of the wddy, and were more perfectly preservedthan any which we had hitherto seen in the Penin-sula. They consisted of two detached houses, on THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE TIH. 317 separate hills, and a group of five on the side of ahio-her eminence. The first two had been used as. IlUMLVAL d\vp;llings IX Wady 15iVA1!. Arab burial-places; but of the second group atleast three out of the five were apparently un-touched. Their dmiensions averaged 7ft. high by8ft. in diameter, but one was fully lOft. high and8ft. in diameter inside. They were circular, witlian oval triin,but the perfect condition in which tlicy liavo beenpreserved exhibits in a niucli moic sliikiiiL;- degreesthe neatness and art of tluii- Ituildiis. In tliocentre of e;icli w;is a cist, and Ijeside tli;t( a sniallcrhole, botli r(tii<-hl\ liiic(l with sdtiirs; llirsr wore 318 TiiK sorriiEnx Khci: ov tuk tjii. with ,sli(]).s of stone, ove]- wliicli earth hadaccumulated. 8onie liuinan bones which we foundill tlie cists at first led us to the conclusion thattluV were tombs, but the small size of the cist
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