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178 178 THE MOUNTAINS OF UPPER GALILEE.

Wady esh Shaghur, Wady el Khashab, and Wady en Nimr, including the Plain of Kameh. But the proper base of this part of the slope is undoubtedly the Wady el Halzun and Wady Shaib, up to Wady el Khashab and Wady en Nimr. The last leads eastward to the waterparting of the Jordan and the basin "of Wady er Kubudiyeh, the head of which is crossed by the footing of the range along Wady Said, and a valley on the south of Kefr Anan. Thus the base of the range is traced to Wady Maktul, a watercourse on the north of Kh. el Bellaneh, which falls into Wady 'Amud, and by that stream the base is carried to the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, and up to the influx of the Jordan. See p. 148.

It may be remarked by the reader who pursues this de- scription with the map before him, that the Wady et Tawahin intersects the range on the west of Safed. This is quite a common occurrence in mountain ranges, and is merely an indentation of the mass, without interrupting the continuity of the total elevation. The great range of perpendicular cliffs along the western side of the Dead Sea, is constantly rifted from summit to base, and the chasms, sometimes only scoring the face of the cliff, often run far back into the mass without affecting the continuity of its general aspects. In the case of the Safed gorge, although it has indented the summit of the range to the depth of a thousand feet, it has still to drop 1,500 feet to reach the base line coming from the west, and then has to fall another 900 feet to reach the Sea of Galilee. The distance of Safed from the mouth of the wady is about nine miles.

The Eastern Range.

The mountain range which bounds Upper Galilee on the south is continued along the eastern face of the highland to the top of the map. Commencing at the south-east with Jebel Kan'an (alt. 2,761 feet), the next observations along the summit occur in a group around Delata (alt. 2,740 feet). Northward, none are found either at Eas el Ahmar, or at Alma, or at Jebel el Ghabieh, or along the waterparting south