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Riding down the Wady Damah to the southwest, Lieutenant Amir came upon a spring in a stone-revetted well near the left bank: this Ayn el-Bada' is not to be confounded with the Badi' water, or with the Bada plain, both of which we shall presently visit. A strew of broken quartz around it showed the atelier, and specimens of scattered fragments, glass and pottery, were gathered.
The ruins belong to the Maghair Shu'ayb category, and the guides compare the Hawawit with those of Madain Salih. Now it is simply El-Bada: the name of the "Prophet" Jacob, supposed to have visited it from Egypt or Syria, being clean forgotten. The rolling plain is floored with grey granite, underlying sandstones not unlike coral-rag, and still in course of formation.
And the produce of the "diggings" would naturally gravitate to El-Bada, the great commercial station upon the Nabathaan "Overland." Thus El-Marwah would signify "the Place of Maru," or "Quartz-land," even as Ophir means "Red Land."
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