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District V (Second Trip)

Djebel Ḥaluḳa April 17, 1900

Ḳaṣril Benat

On the second trip as we moved north from
the Djebel Rîhā on the way to Kinnisrin and
the Djebel Ḥâṣṣ, we moved the camp for several
days back to the northern end of the
Djebel Bārîsha which we had reached in the autumn
from Bashmishli. This made it more
easy to study the before unknown ruins of
this part of the Djebel, Dukîta, Bābisḳa, etc -
and to reach the low western hills of the
Djebel Ḥaluḳa which lie between the
Djebel Bārîsha and Djebel Simʿān.

The line of demarcation between the
Djebel Bārîsha and the Djebel Ḥaluḳa is a deep
narrow valley, running east and west,
through which passes the ancient Roman
road, which connected Antioch with Kinnisrin ,
a portion of which we saw in the southern part
of the circular Djebel Ḥaluḳa near Kefr Kermîn*

*see p. 1