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Dr. Wallin’s- Route in Northern Arabia.
others+} who might happen to pass the same way; but on reaching
(lie hard ground of some dried-up pools, or manka’s, which crossed
the plain, we resumed an easterly course, until we made a halt
for the night.
On the 10th we continued our journey by a rather tortuous
19# course across manka’s and along the bottoms of low flat valleys,
and in 6 hours and 10 minutes arrived at Teima (Teima), our
march having been somewhat lengthened by the detours we had
made.
Teima is allowed by all the Arabs of the present day to belong
to Negd (Nejd), and may be regarded as one of the frontier
towns on the western side of that region. The reason why the
country west of Teima is not considered to be a constituent part
of Negd (Nejd), is, I believe, that this western tract, taken in its
whole extent, forms the bottom of a gently sloping valley, from
which a person on having passed to the higher nufood land of Negd
(Nejd) has ascended (ingad).*
The region of Negd (Nejd) commences on the vast plain of
northern Arabia lying between the Syrian mountains and the river
Euphrates, and extends, with the Sheraa and Shefaa chain for its
western boundary, and the sand hillocks of Wadi Sirhan (Wadi
Sirhan) which begin about two days S. of Damascus and continue
as ranges of the nufood (nufudh) land of Negd as far as the
granite mountain of Aga, for its eastern boundary, down to the
neighbourhood of Teima, where it opens with the land of al-Hala
(pjalah) into another considerable plain corresponding in its
general features with the northern part, and stretching from Medina
(Medinah) and Taif (Taif) along the chain of Galml al ’Arid
(Jabal al ’Aridh), which is the southern limit of Negd, to the
Persian Gulph. The first of these tracts, though regarded as a plain,
I think, would be more properly considered as an extensive valley
gradually diminishing in width between the boundaries mentioned
above, and descending towards al-Hala (Halah), whence the slope
is imperceptibly continued to the Persian Gulph. Taken in the
aggregate, Nejd presents an undulating and rocky surface,
intersected, on the west, by offshoots of the hilly ranges which run out
from the western chains, and, in other places, varied by the
occurrence of broken groups, and of isolated hills and peaks, apparently
unconnected with each other. The plains among these hills are of
greater or less expanse; and consist sometimes of soft nufood
sand, producing a scanty desert vegetation, and, sometimes, of a
hard and barren soil, totally destitute of verdure and life. In the
* Inqdd, which signifies he ascended, and more particularly up to high land, such
as Negd, is on the 4th or causative form of the verb from the root negd, meaning as a
verb overcame^ and, as a noun, the region here referred to, and also high land in
general, as contradistinguished from lower land.—See Negd in n. al p. 51.—A.
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