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97 WADY EL KELT. MINOK BASINS. 97

the Harik of the Palestine Exploration Survey, corresponding to the Harit of Van de Velde's map. But it is hard to say whether the valley itself was meant for the Muheisin at the head of the Nuei'ameh basin, which is the conclusion sug- gested in the first line of page 202, for the last line of the same page, points to Wady el Medineh, as descending to W. Kelt.

THE BASIN OF EL KUEISERAH AND THE MINOR BASINS ON THE NORTH.

The next basin adjoining the Mediterranean waterparting falls into the Dead Sea at a direct distance of more than five miles on the south-west of the junction of Wady el Kelt with the Jordan. Near its outlet at the foot of the mountains, it bears the name of el Kueiserah in the new Survey. It is called Wady Dabor in the maps of Canon Tristram and Lieut. Van de Velde, and Wady el Kuneiterah in the map of the Holy Land in Dr. Wm. Smith's Atlas, the last name being derived from the mountain on the south of its exit into the plain, and it is so called by Dr. Wilson. Its contact with the Mediterranean waterparting is very slight, being confined to about one mile on the south of Shafat, where it meets the Wady Beit Hannina in the Basin of Nahr Eubin. Further south it is bounded on the west, by the northernmost part of the basin of Wady en Nar or Brook Kidron, where the City of Jerusalem is situated.

The northern boundary has been already described as a portion of the waterparting of Wady el Kelt, as far east as Khan Hathrurah. Further east this basin is divided from the Kelt by the Wady Talat ed Dumm, and other secondary basins.

From the head of Wady Talat ed Dumm the northern boundary of the Kueiserah Basin divides it from the secondary basins by passing south-eastward to Jebel Ekteif and Neby Musa, where the waterparting descends to the plain and through Belawet edh Dhehaiban to the Dead Sea. The description of the secondary basins will now be taken up.