1130 General Notes. 
had seen in Arabia. The presence of the pastures 
annual tropical rains, which fall for five or six weeks tog 
commencing at the end of August or the beginning of § 
ber. This region is occupied by the great Bedouin 
Ateyba. In the last days of the journey the caravan 
alongside of the great southern Harras, where the lava had 
poured out upon granite. 
Arabia is a land of sepulchres and ruins.. The A 
neither bores deep wells and builds stone houses, as did th 
buildings of huge Cyclopean blocks. The façades at 
thought by Mr. Doughty to date from the earlier centu 
Christian era. Barrows of prehistoric or uncertain age 
ous. Mr. Doughty has made drawings of three renos 
stones of the ancient Arabians. He also discovered an 
which is new to science, and lives in the sandy deserts of 
rat, Kahtan and Muna. 4 
The geology of Arabia is simple. A central cone of 
rocks is overlaid by sandstones, and these again by 
sometimes with flints, The latter rocks, which appear 
tween the Dead sea and Jerusalem, are, Mr. Doughty bi 
nearly the same age as the chalk, while the underlying 
represent the greensand. , moe 
Mr. Doughty's journey was concluded in the au 
although his account of his adventures is comparati 
year ago the celebrated orientalist, Professor Julius Buti 
versed much of the same ground, discovered a large 
column at Teyma, and obtained numerous inscriptions 
Salih and El Ally ; but a report spread among the 
his box of copies of inscriptions contained pure 
with difficulty saved his life. He previously discover 
unknown Jewish temple at Palmyra. 
tral Asia Minor, is a plateau which rises grain 
ie da eastward to Erzerüm. 
ranges, as the Phrygian mountains 
