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(1850) Author: Georg August Wallin
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Dr. Wallin’s Route in Northern Arabia.

have+} been detached, and rolled down from the overhanging
mountains. Upon some of these stones are graven clumsy
representations of various animals, such as camels, sheep, and dogs, and on
others, inscriptions in ill-formed characters, now nearly all effaced
by the action of the weather on this crumbling sandstone.
Although I am unable to form a decisive opinion upon these
inscriptions, and am inclined, from their rudeness, to regard them only
as the work of Bedooin shepherds, such as 1 have seen in other
parts of the desert, 1 transcribed a few of them, of which a copy is
given in the annexed plate. Except on the three stones from
which the specimens were taken, I noticed none containing
anything like connected symbols ; hut the impatience of my
Bedooin companions left me so little time that I could not stroll far
in quest of others which may possibly exist.

Leaving Wadi ’Uweinid to our right, we advanced in an easterly
direction, over hilly ground, for 1 h., and then entered a narrow
pass between two perpendicular cliffs, which in i an hour led us
out upon the plain of al-liakkar (Bakkar), bounded on the W.
by the last parts of the Hurra (ilarrali) range, and on the E.
joining the plain of Hamadet Tebook (Hamadet Tebuk). From the
commencement of the plain al-Bakkar (Bakkar), at the eastern
end of the pass, to Tebook (Tehuk), 1 reckoned 5 h. over a
complete unbroken level. The distance between Muweilah anti
Tc-book (Tehuk) is generally accounted 4 days’ journey with laden
camels, which agrees with the time I took. But were it not for
the windings and badness of the road in al-Tahaina (Tahamah),
the direct distance pointed out to me as E. by N. would not
exceed 3 days.

Tebook (Telnik) is a village of about sixty houses, on the
highroad of the Syrian pilgrims, 4 days from Ma’fm (Ma’an), and the
same number from Higr (Tlijr). It is situated in the centre of a
large plain, called Hamadet Tebook (Hamadet Tehuk), in the
tract of Arabia lying between the Sliefa.ii chain and its northerly
continuation Sherak, on the west, and the ranges of the Nufood
(Nuftklh) high lands of Negd (Nejd), on the east. The Arabian
geographers differ much as to the region of Arabia to which this
tract belongs, some referring it to Syria, others to al-i ligaz
(Hijaz), and others to Negd (Nejd). Its present inhabitants,
however, indisposed as they are by mental habit to generalise,
neither give to the whole tract a generic name, nor consider it
as part of any one of the three regions mentioned, hut denote by
a specific name each separate part of it. That part of it forming
the plain of Hamadet Tebook (Hamadet Tehuk) extends about
5 li. on every side of the village ; but, from its great expanse and
the absence of any considerable hills, its boundaries are uncertain,

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