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 . ?«•*• ?-^ ;:7. THE SO I THERX BO RD ER OF FA LESTINE. 411 collection of dwellings and outbuildings; these arealso encompassed by a wall and form a secondenclosure attached to the fort, with which it com-municates by a gateway at the south-east arcliitecture is evidently Christian, for we founda cross sculptured over one of the doors. Someof the walls remain standing to the height of abo
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 . ?«•*• ?-^ ;:7. THE SO I THERX BO RD ER OF FA LESTINE. 411 collection of dwellings and outbuildings; these arealso encompassed by a wall and form a secondenclosure attached to the fort, with which it com-municates by a gateway at the south-east arcliitecture is evidently Christian, for we founda cross sculptured over one of the doors. Someof the walls remain standing to the height of about15ft., and are composed of very regularly squaredstones. To the south are the ruins of a small townor village, but no plan can be made out of thearrangement as at Sebaita. In the valley, belowthe fort to the west, is a house, m a very perfectstate of preservation, but we had not time to visitit. At a little distance from the town, on the south-east, is a cave (probably once used as a reservoir) inthe liill-side; here the Arabs believe that a pot{gidr) full of wealth lies buried. All the bettersort of houses are built within the walled enclosure;the promontory on which this stands is defended onthe land si
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