Batn-el-Hajar ('Womb of Rocks'), a stony district of Nubia, stretching along the Nile in the neighbourhood of the third cataract. The Nile, in the upper portion of the district, is often forced by the approaching rocks into a very narrow channel, and its navigation is frequently interrupted by small islands, rocks, and rapids. The granite hills in some parts attain a height of 2000 feet above the river.
Batn-el-Hajar
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 796
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