Place where the date plantations terminate, and an hour’s walk below the
spot from whence we set out yesterday upon this excursion.
WADY ALEYAT
[p.613] In the course of my descent from the cleft at the foot of Mount
Serbal, through the Wady Aleyat, I found numerous inscriptions on blocks
by the side of the road, those which I copied were in the following
order; some I did not copy, and many were effaced.
1. Upon a flat stone in the upper extremity of the Wady, descending from
the foot of Serbal towards the well with date-trees: [not included]
2. Upon a small block lower down: [not included]
3. Upon a small rock still lower down: [not included]
4. 5. Still descending: [not included]
6. Near the spring: [not included]
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7. Upon a large rock beyond the spring, and towards Wady Feiran: [not
included]
8. Further down, upon a rock, being one of the clearest inscriptions
which I saw: [not included] On many stones were drawings of goats and
camels. This was once probably the main road to the top of Serbal, which
continued along its foot, and turned by Deir Sigillye round its eastern
side, thus passing the cleft and the road by which we had ascended, and
which nowhere bears traces of having ever been a regular and frequented
route.
