SURVEY DEPARTMENT, PUBLIC WORKS MINISTRY
EGYPT.

BAHARIA OASIS:
ITS TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY

BY
JOHN BALL, Ph. D., A.R.S.M., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E.
AND
HUGH J. L. BEADNELL, F.G.S., F.R.G.S.

CAIRO
National Printing Department
1903

CONTENTS.

Pages.
PREFACE[5]
CHAPTERI. —Introduction[7]
„II. —Surveying Methods and GeneralResults[11]
„III. —The Roads connecting the Oasis ofBaharia with the Nile Valley and with other Oases[17]
„IV. —Topography, with Notes on theWater-Supply, Inhabitants, etc.[37]
„V. —Geology[47]
„VI. —Antiquities[73]
Plates.
Plate[I.] —Map of the Oasis geologicallycolouredat end
„[II.] —Sketch Map showing Position of theOasis„
„[III.] —Villages and Principal Sources ofWater„
„[IV.] —Section through Western Escarpment, 11kilometres north of south end of Depression„
„[V.] —Diagrammatic Section from hill 15kilometres north-east of Ain el Haiss to the Eocene-Cretaceousjunction on desert to west„
„[VI.] —Section from Mandisha through JebelMayesra and Conical Hill to Western Plateau„
„[VII.] —Map of the Synclinal fold from JebelHefhuf to its termination in the Western Plateau, 13 kilometresnorth-west of Ain el Haiss„
„[VIII.] —Sketch sections of Eastern Scarp„
Illustrations in theText.
Fig.1. —Section across Syncline, 12½ kilometresnorth-west of Ain el Haiss[66]
„2. —Sketch shewing probable relations ofEocene and Cretaceous in Anticline on Western Desert Plateau, 11½kilometres north-west of El Qasr[69]