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174 174 THE WESTERN SHORE OF THE DEAD SEA.

Kuberah and the Seiyal rise on the waterparting that divides the tributaries of the Dead Sea from those of the Mediterra- nean, namely, Wady el Khulil, afterwards Wady Ghuzzeh. Along the ridge which gives rise to the sources of the Kuberah, are the noted sites of Beni Nairn on the east of Hebron, Ziph, Carmel, and Maon. The basin of Wady Seiyal succeeds, and comes to a termination with the Sur- vey at the biblical site of Arad.

In these pages, little more than a bare topographical description, explanatory of the Survey, is given of the Plains of Palestine. Their precise and accurate geography affords, however, scarcely any cue to the interest which belongs to them. That has already elicited the eloquence and learning of Dean Stanley, in his comparison of them with those of other countries,* and in his elaborate commentaries on the Maritime Plain, the Plain and Terraces of Jordan, and the Plains of Esdraelon, Hattin, and Gennesareth. These will be read with fresh zest in the light thrown upon the localities by the new maps.


 * " Sinai and Palestine," 136.