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From Tarba we visited, besides Nimreh just discribed,
Têmā, il 'Arādejeh and Dûma, finding no remains
of ancient architecture sufficient for study. At
each of these places there are fragments and
building stones which belonged to ancient buildings
but none of these is preserved.

Dûma The remarkable
private house published by de V. (de Vogüé) from Dûma
has disappeared with all the other antiquities of
these places in the building of the modern town
Incriptions were found in all three.

At Būsân there are preserved more remains of ancient
domestic architecture than in any of the inhabited
places that I have ^yet ^ visited in the Haurân. The eastern
part of the low hill is occupied by a modern village,
the top of the hill, a hard level plateau contains
a mixture of modern houses and ancient buildings
inhabited and shows many fragments of classic
architecture all of which are probably from a huge
building of which nothing is left but the lower part
of a section of wall of finely dressed stone with