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[ A large ruin east of Zibá, also visited.]
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[ For a notice of El-Khalasah, also called El-Khulusah, El-Khulsah, or Zu'l-Khalasah, consult the art. "Midian," Smith's "Dict. of the Bible," by E. S. Poole, vol. ii. p. 356. For the Khalasah of the Negeb, "where Venus was worshipped with all the licentious pomp of the Pagan ritual," see Professor Palmer's "Desert of the Exodus," p. 385. The text, however, alludes to a ruin called El-Khulasah, one march from El-Muwaylah to the east (Chap. VIII.).]
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[ El-Mederah is possibly Hasíyat el-Madrá, which, like El-A'waj, El-Bírayn, and Ma'ín, is now included in Syria. El-Mu'allak may be Jebel Yalak,—at least, so say the Bedawin.]
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[ In the last remark, also found in El-Kazwíní, the Madyan of El-Shu'ayb is referred to the district of Tiberias. Thus it would belong to Syria, whilst the majority of geographers refer it to the Hejaz, and a minority to El-Yemen.]
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[ Alluded to in a note to p. 331 of "The Gold Mines of Midian," etc.]