SITUATION AND EXTENT. 



Miles, 



Length 1400 > , , 

 BreJdth 1260 J between 



Degrees. 



36 and 60 East longitude. 

 1 2 and 32 North latitude. 



Sq. Miles, 

 700,000 



Name. ...It is remarkable that this country has always preserved its 

 ancient name. The word Arab, it is generally said, signifies a robber s 

 or freebooter. The word Saracen, by which one tribe is called, is said 

 to signify both a thief and an inhabitant of the desert. These names 

 justly belong to the Arabians; for they seldom let any merchandise 

 pass through the country without extorting something from the own- 

 ers, if they do not rob them. 



Boundaries. ...Bounded by Turkey, on the north ; by the gulfs of 

 Persia or Bassorah, and Ormus, which separate it from Persia, on the 

 east ; by the Indian Ocean, south j and the Red Sea, which divides it 

 from Africa, on the west. 



Divisions. 



3. Arabia Petraea, 



N.W. 

 2. Arabia Deserta > 



in the middle } 



Subdiyisiom. 



Chief Towns. 



Neged 



' , _ CImama 



Neged Proper J Salemia 



Hedjaz 



S. Arabia Felix, j HaHramaut 



S.W.S.ScS.E. | Hadramaut 

 i 

 «> Yemen 



| Oman 



I 



Lachsa,Hadjar) L 

 ^ or Bahrein > 



Mecca,E. Ion.41° O'N. lat. 2 1°40 ! 



Medina 

 C Hadramaut 

 I Dofar 



5 Saana,E. Ion.46° 35'N. lat. 17°28 ? 

 I Mocha,E. Ion. 44° 25' N.lat. 14° 7 ' 

 $ Rostack 

 I Muscat 



MouNTAiNS...The mountains of Sinai and Horeb, lying in Arabia Pe- 

 fcraea, east of the Red Sea, and those called Gibel el Ared,in Arabia 

 Felix, are the most noted. 



Rivers, seas, gulfs, and capes. ...There are few springs or rivers 

 in this country, except the Euphrates which washes the north-east 

 limits of it. It is almost surrounded with seas ; as the Indian Ocean, 

 the Red Sea, the gulfs of Persia and Ormus. The chief capes or pro- 

 montories are those of Rosalgat© and Musledon,- 



