Persian Gulf and Arabian Coast: mountains or mounds p.33

AIR 5/1284 1936
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NATURE.

POSITION.

KHARJ AH.

خرجه

A number of knolls.
The knolls form
groups.

Situated near the left
bank of the BATIN oppo site RIQA'I.

KHASHM HUSAINI. A sandstone range.

About 15 miles southward
of RAS HUWAI QIL; it rises
a few miles inland, in a
bluff about 300 ft.high,
that makes a good land mark.

A Hill.

KHASHM-AZ 
ZAINAH.

In BARR- AL-QAR AH, inland,
1 or 2 miles west of
DOHAT HAMAH.

KHATMAT- ASH SHIKLAH.

The southern extrem ity of a ridge which
runs from South to
North.

خطة الشكله

In JAU, Independent Oman,
a mile N.of KHATMAT-AS SUWWAD.The BARAIMI-SOHAR
route passes between
this place and KHATMAT AS-SUWWAD. A short dist ance to the east of
KHATMAT- ASH-SHIKLAH is
a low red hill of comp act nummulitic lime stone.

KHATMAT-AS 
SUWVAD.

The northern end of
a ridge which goes
off to southwards.
(See KHATILAT- ASH SHIKLAH above).

In JAU, INDEPENDENT OMAN,
12 miles E.S.E.Of BARAI MI VILLAGE.

خطة الواد

A high sandhill.

JABAL KHAWEIR.

or
JABAL KHUWAIR.

On the coast of NAJD.15
miles North-Westward of
RAS-AL-KALIYAH, situated
on a slightly projecting
point at the southern
end of DUHAT BU ALI,
which is large and
shallow

JABAL-AL-KOR.

جبل الكور

Is a range of hills
20 miles in length,
which run nearly N.
and S.and has peaks
about 7000 ft.high.
At either extremity
it is crossed by a
pass both passes
are practicable for
camels.

OMAN PROPER is enclosed
on the N.by the lofty
range of JABAL AKHDHAR,
on the w. by JABAI- AL-KOR
& HADDAH, offshoots of
the Hajar hill system:
on the E.it is not divid
ed from SHARQIYAH by any
marked natural feature,
unless it be WADI 'ANDAM,
and similarly on the S.
there is no perceptible
landmark between it and
the desert.

JABAL LABAN.

A Hill.

The Town of NAKHL possess
es a watch-tower on a
pinnacle of rock, some 200
feet high, and between it
and a hill called JABAL,
LABAN is a fort on high
ground.