[5] Reisebeschreibung, vol. ii, p. 225, note.
[6] Journey from India to Persia, London, 1773.
[7] Travels from England to India, vol. i, p. 243, London, 1779.
[8] Erdkunde, vol. xi, pp. 956, 1039.
[9] The height above sea-level is Sir W. Willcocks’s reduced level, arrived at by his own observations on the Persian Gulf. Sir W. Willcocks, The Irrigation of Mesopotamia, p. 15, Plate 2.
[10] Professor Musil, early in 1912, visited Ukhaiḍir and continued his journey south, parallel with the ṭâr which he names ṭâr al-Ṣeihed. Proceedings of the K. Akad. der Wiss. in Wien, No. 1, 1913, p. 10.
[11] When I was there in March 1911 many of the palm-trees had been killed, and the rest severely damaged by the snow which had fallen in January and February. In the memory of no living man had snow fallen in Shethâthâ, and the inhabitants, when they woke to find the ground covered with white, were at a loss to know what the strange substance could be. Some took it to be flour. Snow fell as far south as Nedjef, and in the desert round ‘Aṭshân, between Ukhaiḍir and the Kerbelâ-Nedjef road, it lay for some days. When I passed I saw each abandoned camping ground of the Bani Ḥasan marked by a ring of dead animals, donkeys, sheep, and goats, which had perished in the unwonted cold.
[12] Ibn al-Athîr, ed. Tornberg, vol. ix, p. 423, ‘Shefâthâ w’al ‘ain.’ Shethâthâ is a colloquial corruption for Shefâthâ, and the official maps still spell it in the latter fashion.
[13] Ed. de Goeje, p. 117.
[14] Ed. Wüstenfeld, vol. iii, p. 759.