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 . TUE CITIES OF THE SOUTH. 375 by far the most imposing and considerable of anywhich we had seen, and the Arabs themselves say,^Aazem min el Aujeh wel Ahdeh mdji,illa Esbaitdaazem minhuind, There is nothing larger (or grander)than El Aujeh and El Abdeh, except Sebaita, whichis grander than either. They have also a traditionthat there was once a war between the people of ElMeshrifeh (the fort which we had vis
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 . TUE CITIES OF THE SOUTH. 375 by far the most imposing and considerable of anywhich we had seen, and the Arabs themselves say,^Aazem min el Aujeh wel Ahdeh mdji,illa Esbaitdaazem minhuind, There is nothing larger (or grander)than El Aujeh and El Abdeh, except Sebaita, whichis grander than either. They have also a traditionthat there was once a war between the people of ElMeshrifeh (the fort which we had visited the daybefore) and those of Sebaita, in wliich the latterwere victorious, as they were superior in numbersand wealth. Their gardens (wliich may still be seencovering the plain around the city) were fruitful andwell-kept, and the hills all around were covered withorchards of apples and pomegranates, and terraces ofclustering vines. The ruins, as they now stand, con-sist of a city about 500 yards long, and from 200 to300 yards wide ; it lies north and south, bendinground towards a branch of Wady el Abyadh, Thetown is very strongly and compactly built, and con-tains three churches,
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