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118 118 THE DEAD SEA WATERSHED.

THE BASIN OF WADY SEIYAL AND THE MINOR BASINS ON THE NORTH.

Between the outfalls of Kuberah and Seiyal is an interval of five miles occupied by the minor basins of Wady Mahras, W. el Kasheibeh, and W. Sufeisif. The first two descend from the slopes of Khashm Sufra Lawundi, a summit rising at a distance of six miles from the Dead Sea.

Wady Sufeisif is only separated from the Mediterranean waterparting by the head of Wady Malaki. It rises on Tell et Tuany as Wady Meshukhkhan, runs eastward as Wady et Tebban and esh Sherki, and as Umin Meradhif enters the gorge of Sufeisif.

Wady Seiyal.

The survey concludes with the left bank of this Wady. The western boundary begins with the ridge of Kanan el Aseif, and diverges to the south-east along the Khashm Beiyad which divides Wady Seiyal from W. el Kureitein in the Mediterranean Basin of Wady Ghuzzeh.

The northern boundary runs north-east with the head of W. Malaki for a mile and a-half ; then turns to the south-east dividing the head of Sufeisif from W. Umm Jemat ; then it makes a great curve to the north-east and south-east through Kujrn el Bakarah and Khashm Umm es Suweid, follows the promontory between Seiyal and Sufeisif, and crosses the plain to the Dead Sea.

The Northern Watercourses of Seiyal Basin.

The main wady is represented as rising in Tell Arad, but the cessation of the survey leaves its development on the south quite unknown. On the north it soon receives Wady Khurbet et Teibeh from KL el Kureitein and the western water-parting, while the Wady el Kureitein, which was formerly supposed to join it, goes to Wady es Seba and the Mediter- ranean. The drainage of the north waterparting is collected