Scottish geographical magazine . lain here iscalled Ferjana, and on the north side of it are several wadis drainingtowards the south. Of these, Wadi el Menshi is the most important,—a wide, shallow depression almost in the same line as Wadi of Ferjana lies Wadi Daun, running east and west, and con-nected by Kurmet el Hatheia with the Wadi Kseia, which is rathera plain among the Tarhuna hills than a water-course. After examining the sites on the plateau and in Ferjana, I rode-north-east by a small valley, called Shaahbet el Kheil, through WadiDaun, Avhere there is a running stre

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Scottish geographical magazine . lain here iscalled Ferjana, and on the north side of it are several wadis drainingtowards the south. Of these, Wadi el Menshi is the most important,—a wide, shallow depression almost in the same line as Wadi of Ferjana lies Wadi Daun, running east and west, and con-nected by Kurmet el Hatheia with the Wadi Kseia, which is rathera plain among the Tarhuna hills than a water-course. After examining the sites on the plateau and in Ferjana, I rode-north-east by a small valley, called Shaahbet el Kheil, through WadiDaun, Avhere there is a running stream, and by the above-named Kurmetel Hatheia into the Kseia, at the north-east end of which I camped at thebase of Jebel Msid. The summit of this hill is 1450 feet above the seaand about 600 feet above the valley. On the top is a curious littleruined building, apparently of Arab origin, and seemingly half castle, halfmosque. This, and a tiny mosque on the plateau, are about the onlybuildings of post-Roman date I saw in SEXAM j:l nejji, kkkjana (trilithon)

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