The latter indicated the location at which they should dig for water into the subsurface. They also know how to distinguish an acid hard granite rock, and hard porphyry dike from a soft diabase dike. They know how to discern places where veins of calcite fIlled the fractures of the granites such places are a sign of an extinct spring. to be servants to the priests of the monastery. These bedouins, belonging to the tribe of the Gebelia (the "mountain people"), live around the monastery of Santa Katerina and, according to their tradition, which has been conftrmed by historical research, were once Christians who were brought by the Byzantine emperor, Justinian, from the Balkans in the 6th century A. Yet this method was not invented by the author nor by any other modem hydrogeologist, but was a method that the author learned from the bedouins living in the crystalline mountains of southern Sinai. The reader will, indeed, find in this book the description for a rather simple method by which to strike the rock to get water in the wilderness of Sinai.
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