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The adjoining Arab graveyard, adorned with the mutilated spoils of the classical building, gave two imperfect skulls and four fragments. We opened one of the many mounds that lie behind the Gasr, showing where most probably stood the ruined town; and we found the interior traversed by a crumbling wall of cut alabaster regular excavation may some day yield important results.
The exploration of "Salih's cities" will be valuable if it lead to the collection of inscriptions sufficiently numerous to determine whether the Tamud were Edomites, or kin to the Edomites; also which of the two races is the more ancient, the Horites of Idumaa or the Horites in El-Hijr. And now to inspect the Gasr.
Amongst them is not included the gem of our discovery, the classical shrine, known as Gasr Gurayyim Sa'id, nor the minor ateliers, El-Kubbah, Aba'l-Gezaz, and the remains upon the Marwat ridge.
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