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range when the mountains are highest ; as in the Litany along Lebanon, and the Wady el Khulil or Hebron Valley in the Mountains of Judea. The feature is one especially deserving of notice in correction of a common apprehension of the absence of lateral communications in unknown mountains. The fair inference should be quite contrary.