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Ahmed Kaptan fixed them, by solar observations, in north lat. 26 13', so that we made only one mile of southing. It ignores the porphyritic sub-range in which the "Mother of the Villages" lies: and it brings close to the east of it the tall peaks of the Tihamat-Balawiyyah' which, from this point, rise like azure shadows on the horizon. Finally, it corrupts Umm el-Karayat to Feyrabat.
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.
The Hutaym, who own most of it, claim the lover and hero-poet, 'Antar, as one of their despised tribe hence, probably, his connection with the adjoining mountain and "the stable." "Jebel Libin" is the great feature of the Tihamat-Balawiyyah; for many days it will appear to follow us, and this is the proper place for assigning its rank and status to it.
Behind us lies the Tihamat-Balawiyyah, the equivalent of the Ghats of North Midian, from the Zahd to the Sharr. The items are the little Jebel 'Antar, which, peeping over the Fiumara's high left bank, is continued south by the lower Libn.
Thus it commands a glorious view of the tree-grown valley, or rather valleys, beneath it; and of the picturesque peaks of the Tihamat-Balawiyyah in the background. The distance from the sea is now a little over three miles in ancient days it may have been much less.
Both are essentially mining countries; but, whilst the section near Egypt preserves few traces of the miner, here we find the country carefully and conscientiously worked. The whole eastern counterslope of the outliers that project from the Ghat-section known as the mountains of the Tihamat-Balawiyyah, is one vast outcrop of quartz.
We were far from water, but the evening was pleasant, and the night was still more agreeable. The "Mountains of the Plain," so called because they start suddenly from a dead level, are a section of the Tihamat-Balawiyyah range; yet they are worthy links of a chain which boasts of a Sharr.
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