2) Burckh.. Abulfeda says: "'Ajlûn is a fortress, and its suburb Rubud () is called el-Ba'ütheh (x). The fortress is distant from the town about a horse-race." Tab. Syr. p. 92. A singular transposition of names seems to have occurred between the two places. See also Tab. Syr. pp. 13, 47.

· شرحبیب .Burckh (4

Id.

. بورما . (6)

. عبيدا .Burkh (3)

- المعراد Id (5

حيثه .Id 7

The places named under this head, lie, I believe all of them, between the Zurka and the Môjib (). The province itself we did not enter; but obtained the names from the inhabitants of Dibbîn, who were well acquainted with the country. They

and had only a , السلط ( were all of them natives of es-Salt

short time before removed from that place, in consequence of its having been destroyed by the Pasha's troops. Until that event, Salt was the only inhabited place in the Belka; the two or three other places which are now inhabited, have been peopled from its ruins. Comp. Burckh. Travels, p. 349.

Of the country of Kerak (), between the Môjib and the Ahsy, we obtained no list.

ياجوس 6

النويقص "

عمان

* Yajas | خربة الباشا 1 *Khirbet el-Basha

en-Naweikis | صافوت

Sâfût*

el-Kabu*

8) Edrisi, par Jaubert p. 361. Perhaps Heb. Tob, Judg. xi. 3.

9) Perhaps Karnain of Macc. v. 26. See Reland Palaest. p. 696.

اليدورة

البنيات

ام الحمام

الخمان

الرجيب

ام العمل :

القسطل

*el-Yedûrah | المقابلين

*el-Beniyat طحين

el-Mukâbilin*

Tihin*

* Um el-Hamam قصير السبعة *Kuseir es-Sebah

el-Khumân*

ام صويوينه

er-Rujeib ام الحيران

Um Suweiwîneh*

Um el-Hîrân*

*Um el-Amad نصير السهل *Kuseir es-Sehl

* el-Kustul قرية السوق Kureiyet es-Sik

ام قصير الثانية (2) Um Kuseir قرية العمايري

Kureiyet el

'Amairy *

Abu Nukla*

Um Kuseir*

Jâwa*

el-Jâdûr*

خربة السليمة } خربة قراده Khirbet Karadeh

خربة الدير بوادي السير

Khirbet ed-Deir

Khirbet es-Suleimeh*

-in Wady es خربة السوق Khirbet es-Sak

*

خربة الدبه *Khirbet ed-Debbeh

خربة سار

الكرسي

عراق الامير

فخاره

الصويفيه

حنوطيا

سكا

Seir r البقيع

بطنه

ایوب

Khirbet Sar*

el-Kursy*

'Arâk el-Emîr*

Fukharah*

es-Suweifiyeh*

Hannûtia*

Seka*

el-Bukei'a

Batneh,* Betonim?

Eyûb*

عيرة الصغيرة Aireh the less

عيرة الكبيره * Aireh the greater

NOTE. In the desert East of es-Salt, and South of Busrah, the following places were mentioned.

1. Azrak (), fourteen hours from Busrah. It is a fine fortress, by streams of water (), which run summer and winter. Its soil is excellent, and in it are planted many kinds of vegetables.

2. Kâf(K), a fortress in the desert, to the Eastward of Azrak and distant from it fourteen hours.

3. El-'Anakîyeh (x), East of Kâf, and distant from it

fourteen hours. Here is found excellent salt.

4. Ethrah (8), East of el-'Anakîyeh, and distant from it