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Klialid must have passed through 'Onayza (apud Sadlier and in our 

 maps, Aiiey rah,) or through Qaryatayn which is only two miles dis- 

 tant from 'Onayza, or through Jarad .y^ (the Gorda of Ptolemy,) which 

 is about 15 miles distant ; thence to Shaqra (in my Itineraries, p. 137 

 erroneously l^fcA^and in the Jihannuma, 1^*^ p. 543,) thence to the town 

 of Manfuha &^yix>o the eastern part of which, as Sadlier informs us, is 

 called Riyadh ; Riyadh occurs in the Itinerary of the Jihannum instead 

 of Manfuha. In the old Itineraries, Byna **# is mentioned as a station 

 instead of Manfuha ; Byna being situated close by and comprehended 

 under the name of al-ManafiA, i. e. the Manfuhas. In Ptolemy the 

 next station is Biavana. This seems to be derived, not from Byna, but 

 from the diminutive form of this name, Boyayna or Bowayna. 

 Hitherto I have mentioned only the principal stations from here to the 

 south-east. I will enumerate them all. The next station is Jafr (Ji- 

 hann : j*=* ) and in the old Itineraries Sayh f±p*h , which must be 

 situated close by Jafr. Then follow four places within about three 

 miles of each other, at each of which the caravans alight, according to 

 their destination. Those who proceed to Bahrayn stay at Malham 

 (Jihann :) Malham is close to Qorran e>ly> and both together are called 

 al- Qiryatan (see Yaqiit, v. Qiryatan) : Ptolemy therefore calls this sta- 

 tion, Giratha. From G-iratha the old geographer proceeds to Katara 

 jks and thence to Gerrha ^y^>, which, as Hamdany informs us, is the old 

 name of LaAsa. Ger'a would not be better transcribed than the Greeks 

 have transcribed, for the R has the accent, and 'Ayn is very appropriately 

 expressed by an aspiration). One or two miles south of Qiryatan lies 

 //ajr^s^ once the capital of the country, and east from ITajr on the 

 foot of the hill of Qana Ui iZadyqa, i. e. the garden in which Mosay- 

 lima was slain, is situated. This is the station for those who wish to 

 proceed to Yamama, and in my Itineraries, p. 137, J/adyqa is to be 

 read instead of IZorayqa : thence they proceed to 'Irdh, (not 'Arydh,) 

 and thence to the town of Yamama. The road from 'Onayza to this 

 goes, as I said, generally from N. W. to S. E. 



As the point in dispute turns about the relative position of iZajr 

 and Yamama I must strengthen my assertions by other testimonies. 

 Cleared is that of Abulfeda, p. 97. " Some authors say iTajr lies one 

 day and one night's journey from Yamama. In ZZajr are the graves 

 of the Muslims that have fallen in the light against Mosaylima. 



