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[ The observation was taken on board the Sinnár, by the first lieutenant Násir Effendi Ahmed: of course I am not answerable for its correctness, although the latitude cannot be far out. Thus the difference of parallel between it and El-Wijh (north lat. 26° 14') would be sixty-eight direct geographical miles.]
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[ Beni Kalb: so the Juhaynah were called in the Apostle's day.]
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[ The site was probably near the Shaykh's tomb, where there are wells which in winter supply water.]
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[ This is the volume which I have translated: see also Dr. Beke's papers in the Athenæum (February 8 and 15, 1873).]
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[ See "Mount Sinai a Volcano" (Tinsleys). For a list of Yakut's volcanoes, see Dr. Beke, "Sinai in Arabia," Appendix, p. 535.]