Crossword-Solution: WADIS 5 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The valley of the acacia would appear from the indications to have been by the sea, and probably in Syria; perhaps one of the half-desert wadis toward Gaza was in the writer's mind.

They said there were many wadis in Nogal, but the largest one was in the Mijjertaine country, where its waters were deep and large, with extensive forest around it, frequented by numerous herds of elephants.

Trade routes across the plateau of Judea and Samaria follow the wadis, because these give the best gradient and the best footing for the ascent.[650] Wadis also determine the line of caravan routes across the highlands of the Sahara.

Nowhere higher than 6000 feet (1850 meters), they afford running water at 4000 feet elevation and water pools in the sandy beds of their wadis at 3200 feet.

This line was held by Indian Infantry, the regiments of the cavalry brigade providing the patrols in "no man's land," which, _several miles wide_, was intersected by thousands of wadis (providing excellent cover for a stealthy enemy), also a certain amount of tall grass.