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About 9.0 tuik:
the modern :
time . O t i S n r i s i it , had e x t e n s i v e - . ~
Sinde, &e.;, ; Ailen, now a dependency of Ore#
tains onesffood mosque, several others more or tes» <
about ¡¡J00 houses, several large; tanks excavated in d
and, towards f he pl^in, about 800 wells, many of 1» -
so.i ¿i i from yO feet to 125 teet deep.
On tiid e.I.-.- safe. A e rocky U: ; edfjih <
forms a loay■ opposite to the town, -tram Wfueh, incxm
low neck .connecting it with the mainland.. twr j*
extends upwards oi three miles westward, *»a thus
second bay, the anchorage of which is good.
A little^vav west of the. town the rocky tongue in
has a width of upwards of two miles with elevations
feet .and iClpQ feet respectively, at the two principal
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Even .in. aphcieney *->> gooa «¡ater .
tanks, the-;dyrfcress'es are alike; hut
ancient, aimed net, constructed by Si
.w.hieM.;pas^|Siplong the sandy neck t
eight miles: from the interior, would
There is, besides, a small river,, whi
five miles,¿west ward of the town,
iitream, reaches the sea at Sughra/ a
of Aden afford easy access to the i
and Hadramhut.
Of the^ portions of Arabia, espec
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