el-safhah

Updated: May 2, 2025

Northernmost, and prolonging the Libn, that miniature Sharr, is the regular wall of the Jebel el-Ward; then come the peaks and pinnacles of the Jibal el-Safhah; and lastly, the twin blocks El-Ral, between which passes the Egyptian Hajj when returning from El-Medinah. Faint resemblances of these features sprawl, like huge caterpillars, over the Hydrographic Chart, but all sprawl unnamed.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

We have noted the accidents of the latter as far as Dumayghah Cove, and now we descry in the offing the misty forms how small they look! of the Jebel el-Ward; the Jibal el-Safhah; the two blocks, south of the Wady Hamz, known as the Jibal el-Ral; and their neighbours still included in the Tihamat-Balawiyyah.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2