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with the Philistine camp before mentioned. Three other branches join the main stream on the same side within a mile of the junction with the Farah. They descend from Eas et Tawil (alt. 1,864 feet) on the northern edge of the basin.

The Wady Farah takes the drainage of the western water- parting between Khurbet Erha (alt. 2,450 feet) and Shafat (alt. 3,524 feet). The head wadys fall into the Wady Farah by two branches, the Wady Eedeideh coming down on the north of Hizmeh, and the Wady es Senam on the south of the same place, the junction being in a precipitous gorge one mile east of Hizmeh (alt. 2,020 feet). The easternmost branch of. the Eedeideh descends from Jeba, which has the Wady en Netif on the north.

Wady es Senam, receives the Wady Zimry from the east of Tell el Ful (alt. 3,754 feet). Another branch comes from the south side of the same prominent hill, taking a south- easterly course along the southern edge of the basin, till it approaches Anata, the biblical Anathoth (alt. 2,225 feet), and then bending abruptly to the north and north-east, it falls into Wady Zimry, on the south of Hizmeh.

After the junction of the Eedeideh and Senam, the gorge of the Farah proceeds due east with a slightly serpentine course to its junction with Wady es Suweinit, receiving the Wady en Mmr from the Plain of Jeba on the left bank, and the Wady en Nukheileh on the right, the latter having skirted the southern edge of the basin from the neighbourhood of 'Anata to its junction with the Farah, within a mile of the Suweinit.

Below the meeting of its two main branches, the gorge of Wady Farah turns to the north-east, then east and south, and again north-east and south-east, when it emerges for a time from the cliffs at 'Ain el Kelt, and becomes Wady el Kelt. Proceeding eastward, the Wady el Kelt soon receives Wady Abu Duba from sources on the southern edge of the basin, where the Khan Hathrurah and Talat ed Dumm occur on the road between Jericho and Jerusalem. About two miles and