. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . km 6«0. GeograjKInstit. of Wagner £Del>es,Leip Sinai vid Tur. PENINSULA OF SINAI. 22. Route. 201 ed-Deir [Shuaib • p. 198), and reach the Monastery of St. Catharine(p. 202J. The Route via the Wadi HebeIn leads to the N. from Tur, as-cending the gradual slope of the desert of El-Kaa (see last page)to (1 hr.) Vmm Saad, where a spring of fresh water affords supportto a few families. The water-casks should be filled here. We nowfollow the road ofAhhas Pasha (comp. p. 205), which
. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . km 6«0. GeograjKInstit. of Wagner £Del>es,Leip Sinai vid Tur. PENINSULA OF SINAI. 22. Route. 201 ed-Deir [Shuaib • p. 198), and reach the Monastery of St. Catharine(p. 202J. The Route via the Wadi HebeIn leads to the N. from Tur, as-cending the gradual slope of the desert of El-Kaa (see last page)to (1 hr.) Vmm Saad, where a spring of fresh water affords supportto a few families. The water-casks should be filled here. We nowfollow the road ofAhhas Pasha (comp. p. 205), which is oftenobliterated by drifting sand. For the first hour or two we pass anumber of dum-palms, but these also at length disappear. Thehot desert, which is at first covered with fine sand, afterwardswith rubble, and at length (in the vicinity of the precipitous moun-tains) with enormous blocks of stone, is broken only by a singleseyal-tree, standing about halfway. The W&di HebrS,n is reachedin 7 hrs. from Umm Saad. At the point where it issues from themountains it. s a deep and narrow rocky ravine, through whichwa
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