incorrect to consider the places mentioned under this head, as be. longing to the Nukrah south of Eshmiskîn. In going through it from Der'a to Husn, we passed by er-Remtheh.

*Tuktük تل شهاب .Tell Shehab, Mus

Dhuneibet 'Am

السلمانية .es-Selmaniyeh, Mus ذنيبة عمراوا ) .rawa, Mus

تل الاشعری * Tell el-Eshara

الشجرة

esh-Shejrah, Mus.

X. Arabs of Haurân.

Among the Bedawîn of Haurân there are four noble tribes, viz.

العيسي Aisy الحيل hail السردي ) es-Serdiyeh

The names of other tribes subject. هل الشمال ) of the North

and Beni Sukhr().

They are together called « the People

to the first two, are mentioned in the list. The last two have no subjects.

1. The Arabs es-Serdîyeh are entitled "Sheikhs of the Arabs of

Haurân” (~!! ¿l). Their subjects are as follows:

.(مشایخ عرب حوران)

el-Ghanim | الشرفات

el-'Asâfîr

بنی عضام
el-Ghawanim | السمرات

es-Shŭrafât

Beni 'Adâm

es-Semarât

الغنيم العصافير

الغوانم

2. The Arabs el-Fuhaily are called "Emîrs of the Arabs of the Lejah"

This province embraces so much of the mountainous country east of the Jordan, as lies between the Yarmûk () and the Zurka (f). At the northern extremity it suddenly declines to the level of Jaulan (), which appears at a distance as a continuation of the Nukrah of Haurân; and presents, on the east side of the lake of Tiberias, the edge of a high plateau, intersected by deep ravines. No mountain crosses it, to connect Jebel 'Ajlûn with Jebel esh-Sheikh. Jebel 'Ajlûn presents the most charming rural scenery that I have seen in Syria. A continued forest of noble trees, chiefly the evergreen-oak (Sindiân), covers a large part of it; while the ground beneath is clothed with luxuriant grass, which we found a foot or more in height, and decked with a rich variety of wild flowers. As we went from el-Husn to 'Ajlûn, our path lay along the very summit of the mountain, and we often overlooked a large part of Palestine on one side, and the whole of Haurân on the other. The capital of the whole province, when we were there, was et-Taiyibeh, in the district of el-Wastîyeh. Our route through it southwards, was from el-Husn to 'Ajlûn and Dibbîn, a village in sight of Jerash, to the southwest, near the banks of the Zurka; and northwards, from thence by Sûf to et-Taiyibeh, and to the bridge over the Jordan called Jisr el-Mejâmi’a ( ¿l>).

جسر الجامع

The districts which compose the province, are el-Kefârât, es

Seru, el-Jehâmineh or el-Butein, el-Wastîyeh, Beni 'Öbeid, el-Kûrah, Jebel 'Ajlûn, el-Ma'râd,1 and an uninhabited district on the East, of which we obtained no list.

2. Es-Seru,. The capital of this district was formerly

البطين

3. El-Jehâmineh, xide; or el-Butein, b. Its capital

الجهامنه

is Irbid.

Kefr Yûba, Mus. Gr. Irbid, Mus. Arbela

اربد

1) Is this the place which Burckhardt writes f, the ancient Abila?

I supposed it to be Abila, when the name was given to us at el-Husn.

2) Burckh.

. الحريمي .Eurekh (3

3)

جدجين.Jedajin (Jed in ), Mus کفر دام ? Kefr Dahim,* Dium

سوم

.Saum, Mus | الدير

Zahar the east,

:Mus برصينا زحر الشرقية {

كفر عان

الطيبة "

Kefr 'An*

ed-Deir, Mus.

Bersîna*

Ibsur*

et Tayibeh زهر .الغربيه.Zahar the west, Mus

صیدور

Saidûr*

ناطفه "

عبيد
بنی

5. Beni 'Obeid, . Its capital is el-Husn.

el-Husn, Mus. Gr.

* .Natifeh, Mus | الحصن

8

.Samad, Mus | الصريح

Eidûn, Mus.

Ham, Mus.

es-Sŭrîh*

بيت الرأس .Burkh (4) العال .Id 5 جمها . (6)