Ain el Haiss is an important point on the road from the villages of Baharia to Farafra. It lies some 40 kilometres S.S.W. from Bawitti, in about lat. 28° 2′ N., long. 28° 39′ E. of G. It is a small settlement, being tenanted at the time of survey by only three or four men. There are two springs, one at a higher level than the other. The upper spring is close to the house occupied by the inhabitants; the water, which has a temperature of 15°.6 C. (_i.e._ 3° warmer than the air at the time of measurement) is collected into a shallow muddy pool, surrounded by a mud dam, whence it flows westward on to the fields. The lower spring forms a pool of about 400 square metres in extent, the temperature of the water here being 14° C. It is situated about 400 metres south-west of the one just described, and like it serves for irrigation. Rice was the crop growing at the time of our visit. The total irrigated area at Ain el Haiss is about 60 or 70 feddans, and there are only a few palms. Besides the house there is a sheikhs’ tomb, which is an object of veneration in the oasis, a small walled-in garden, and a large ruin; the last named will be described among the antiquities of the oasis. Another small cultivated tract, some 15 or 20 feddans in extent, with at least one spring, exists about 3 kilometres north-west of Ain el Haiss. According to Jordan there are two springs here, named Ain Hassab and Ain el Gharb, owned in 1874 by the Kadi of El Qasr, but the place is usually spoken of as Ain el Haiss el Bahari. East of Ain el Haiss are two considerable patches of cultivated land which were mapped from the east scarp, and thus not examined by the survey. Of these, the most northerly one is situated about 9 kilometres east of Ain el Haiss; according to Ascherson it bears the name of Tablemun, and its principal spring had a temperature of 27° C. The ruins of a Coptic village existing here show that the place was inhabited in early times. It lies some 5 kilometres S.S.W. from Tablemun, and about 7 kilometres E.S.E. from Ain el Haiss, and thus forms the most southerly cultivated spot in the oasis. Both these localities were reported by our men, sent there to obtain water, to be untenanted; the lands are doubtless cultivated by men sent from Ain el Haiss or from the villages for the purpose. A long line of sand-dunes and scrub runs S.S.W., hiding these places from a traveller approaching from Ain el Haiss.