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April Thursday 20 1905
Dâr Kîtā day about as yesterday Barometer L. 28.08.
Broke camp. 8-17 going N. car?ing steep wadi + well up apponite hill
side to 8-45 Khirbit Tēzîn a small mi??? town with well ?ur??ed
church. Left 10-24 going N. draw E. side of a hill 10-32 Kasi/r Iblîsū
a small R. town on a shoulder projecting toward N. to few foot hills
+ then plain - 2 churches, one standing one in foundations. Left 11-32
going E. down hill to small ??ltiratid valley + then E. to E. S. E. up wachi
in which ?? ???a?is of Roman Road to 'Ain Dilteh, a R. town in wadi
wi?ly scattered from view on both side of ??as many signs of arabic
recu?ancy. 2 Built fountains out of which ?urst things of clear water
Left 12-15 following ?ad up Wadi passing 12-50 Kasr il-Benât, a ch??te of
ruined buildings well ps????ed with a high tower standing the
win of a large convent. Followed up wadi still on R. road which
in place is cut through the solid rock in ?(mins (approx. 10)
passing 2 inscriptions cut in the rock in reces?ed plate, one stating
that under ?a?? a??chins august? the road was changed to a higher
level + the other dated in 6-th century (588 ad) fixing the boundaries of
the country of the Kaprobaradi + the (?Biziki). In another
7 mins we branched up a wadi to the N.W. ascending in 20 mins
to a table land carving this to N.N.W. arriving in another 15 mins
at Serdjibleh a mined town cla? B. uninhabited but some
t?mto pitched near it and part of the table land under cultivation
in 3 mins we descended wadi winding to N.W. for 15 mins +
then up a steep rocky hills side to in 10 mins. K?ellūclîn, wihab
by 3 or 4 families of Turksman a small ruin of a town but nothing
?o?th s??ing. From there after ? lunching for 1-h 17m we rode to W. over

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