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161 THE SAMARITAN GORGE.

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In the reconnaissance map and report of this gorge made by Lieutenant Warren, K.E., in October, 1868, various names of wadys occur, which would probably supply those which are omitted in the new map. Mons. Guerin also contributes some names and objects here, as elsewhere, that do not appear on the map.* The extension of the Survey to the east of the Jordan, will afford an opportunity of reconciling or explaining these discrepancies upon further inquiry on the spot.

A COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NAMES FEOM WARREN, GUERIN, AND CONDER, BETWEEN W. MALEH AND W. ABU SIDREH.

FKOM WARREN'S SKETCH,

1868.

W. Malih. W. Um Karuby. W. el em Dahideh. W. Shiyeh. W. Swaida. W. Saujeh (S'aidiyeh). W. Abu Serad (Jerad). W. Belgod. W. Abu Haschish. W. Ghor. W. Abu Sidra.

FROM GUERIN.

0. el Maleh.

O. Mar my Faiadh.

0. Rhazal.

0. es-Seder.

Sath er Rhoula (cave).

Kh. el Bridje.

0. es Seka'ah.

Haouch ez Zakkoum.

O. en Nekeb.

Tell es Saidieh.

O. Asberra.

0. Abu Sehban.

O. Kefr Anjda.

0. ez Zarha.

Unautre Oued.

O. el E'urkan.

Siret el Maazeb.

Kh. es Sireh.

0. Abou Sedra.

FROM CONDER'S SURVEY.

Wady el M&leh (esh Sherar).

Marma Fiad.

Thogret el Kabur.

Wady Fass el Jemel (Habs Katurj).

Shaib.

Umm ed Deraj ez Zak-

kum.

Un-named stream.

Sadet et Taleh.

Wady Jurat el Katufi.

Three ruined sites.

Arak Abu el Hashish (rocky

eminence above unnamed

stream). Wady Abu Loz. Sidd el Belkawy. See Belgod

above, in Warren. Tombs, cisterns, and Kh. el

Karur. Tell and Wady Abu Sidreh.

The Ghdr between the Gorge and the Dead Sea, in 2 parts.

South of Wady Abu Sidreh, where the Samaritan Gorge is considered to terminate, the Ghor begins to widen by successive accretions, and attains a breadth of five miles west of the Jordan, where the Wady el Humr crosses the plain, on the north of Khurbet Fusail, the ancient Phasaelis. This width continues undiminished up to the Dead Sea : but in other respects the Ghor exhibits a remarkable variety of features which makes it desirable to divide the plain on the south of the Samaritan Gorge, into two parts, the separation of which is found along the southern waterparting of Wady el 'Aujah Basin. The northern part may be called the Plain of Phasaelis, after the Herodian city, the ruins of which remain in its midst. The southern part is the famous Plain of Jericho.


 * Guerin, "Samarie," i, 264-268.