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98 98 THE DEAD SEA WATERSHED.

Wady Talat ed Dumm and other Minor Basins of the

Dead Sea.

This wady is traversed throughout by the road between Jerusalem and the Jordan, the road to Jericho also only passing from this valley into the gorge of the Kelt, about two miles from the plain. Shortly before it descends to the plain, the Wady Talat ed Dumm changes its name to "Wady Medhbah Aiyad. In crossing the Ghor it receives the Wady el Hazim from the lower part of the hills and taking the name of Khaur el Tumrar, it passes south-eastward to the Zor, then southward through the Zor and parallel to the Jordan to its outfall into the Dead Sea.

Wady Makarfet Kattum.

About half a mile west of this outfall, the Dead Sea receives another independent wady from the foot of the hills, named Makarfet Kattum.

Wady Joreif Ghuzul.

A mile still further west, a third wady falls into the sea, which has its origin on the west of Jebel Ekteif (alt. 640 feet) about four miles from the plain, and crosses the plain as Wady Joreif GhuzuL

The southern boundary leaves its brief contact with the Mediterranean Waterparting at a point on the road between Jerusalem and Shafat, about a mile on the south of the latter place ; and follows the ridge to the summit of the Mount of Olives. It descends from the summit eastward and then southward, leaving el 'Aziriyeh and Abu Dis on the left, and continues southward to Kh. Jubb er Bum. Soon after it turns to the east straight along an ancient road, until a track falls in from Wady Abu Hindi, near which it is deflected north- ward for a short distance, and then bends again eastward to reach the summit of el Muntar* (alt. 1,723 feet). From this elevated point it turns north-east along the range which


 * Conder's " Tent Work," i, 290, 300, 301.