nests--I got from our guide the following list of sites in the
neighbourhood. They were of course unable to discriminate between
ancient and modern names; and I do not find one Bible name among them
all:--

From north to west--
Thuggeret el Baider. Esh-Shemesani.
Kassar Waijees. Esh-Shwaifiyeh.
Es-Salt. Umm Malfoof.
From west to east--
'Abdoon. Mesdar 'Aishah.
Umm es Swaiweeneh. El Mergab.
Towards the east--
Merj Merka. 'Ain Ghazal.
Ursaifah (in a valley with a
river).
El Muntar el Kassar, between two
artificial hills.

The people informed me of a place, a little nearer than Kerak, called
_Rabbah_. This latter may be a _Rabbath-Moab_.

I have no further notes to transcribe respecting the architectural
remains; but they are so numerous and so important that a week would not
suffice for their thorough investigation. All our party were highly
gratified at having visited this Rabbath-Ammon--_alias_
Philadelphia--_alias_, at present, 'Amman. We were not, however, so
fortunate as Lord Lindsay in finding a fulfilment of the prophecy (Ezek.
xxv. 5) with respect to camels, either alive or dead. Probably, when he
was there, it was soon after an Egyptian military expedition to Kerak.
The prodigious number of dead camels that he saw there would seem to
indicate that a great Arab battle had been fought at that place shortly
before. It is only in this way that we could account for a cannonball
(about a six-pounder) which one of the boys carried about, in following
us, all the afternoon, wishing us to buy it of him as a curiosity.

On returning to the tents, I found an old Jerusalem acquaintance--a
Moslem named 'Abderrahhman Bek el 'Asali--and with him several people
from Es-Salt; among these a Christian named Abbas.

From conversation with them I got some fresh information on Arab affairs.
These people took the opportunity of glorifying their native town;
related how they are frequently at war, and that successfully, with the
'Adwan; and when acting in concert with the Abbad, or much more so when
in alliance with the Beni Sukh'r, can always repel them; only it happens
that sometimes the 'Adwan get help from the more distant 'Anezeh; and
this is much more than enough to turn the balance again. But even now
the 'Adwan cannot come near the town; neither can they quite forget that