. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. 8427 «i-R\unfil cesu >• v^ i-T-Glaifira ^^ ^,- \—/^ r J-Ktslm-ych. ^X^ l^iS^iartf A Circles of Itc^vJ I SICS to Sinai. PENINSULA OF SINAI. 22. Route. 191 perhaps used for engraving inscriptions. On the farther side of thehill is the ruined house of Major Macdonald, who made an unsuccess-ful search for turquoises in the old mines in 1863. There is a springabout 25 min. distant from the house. A little beyond the mouth of the Wadi Maghara the Wddi Sidrturns to th

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. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. 8427 «i-R\unfil cesu >• v^ i-T-Glaifira ^^ ^,- \—/^ r J-Ktslm-ych. ^X^ l^iS^iartf A Circles of Itc^vJ I SICS to Sinai. PENINSULA OF SINAI. 22. Route. 191 perhaps used for engraving inscriptions. On the farther side of thehill is the ruined house of Major Macdonald, who made an unsuccess-ful search for turquoises in the old mines in 1863. There is a springabout 25 min. distant from the house. A little beyond the mouth of the Wadi Maghara the Wddi Sidrturns to the S., skirting the Jehel AhuAldka (2620 ft.), and afterfully an hour leads to a large tableland. To the E., opposite to us,is the mouth oitheWddiNeha, and to the S. lies the W&diMokatteb, Valley of Inscriptions, which we now follow. On theW. sideof this broad valley rises the Jehel Mokatieb (2380 ft.), at the foot ofwhich are strewn blocks of sandstone, several of them bearing thefamous so-called Inscriptions of Sinai. Most of the Siiittitic Inscriptions are in the Nabataean character,

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