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182 182 THF MOUNTAINS OF UPPER GALILEE.

the Hasbany, and pursues the same direction towards the Nahr Bareighit, above the village of Zuk et Tahta. Two or three altitudes westward of el Mansurah and corresponding with it, would have helped this attempt.

The structure of this slope is an orographical curiosity, and the notice it has received from such an eminent and exemplary observer as Dr. Kobinson, makes it necessary in a Survey like the present, to meet it distinctly, either by adequate delineation or positive disavowal.

The connection of this slope with that between the Mediterranean waterparting and the Nahr Bareighit should also be elucidated. The following is a case in point. From Jebel Hunin (alt. 2,951 feet) the waterparting runs to the north-east, and bears on its summit the village and ruined castle of Hunin. Half a mile beyond Hunin, the water- parting takes a northerly direction, but a spur continues north-easterly to Nahr Bareighit, and has upon its brow the ruin of el Kuneiseh (alt. 1,064 feet). On the opposite bank of the river, in a more northerly direction, is Abl (alt. 1,074 feet). It seems probable that el Ghajir on the Hasbany is about the same height, but there is no observation. One or two altitudes near this level, on the east of Abl, would enable a hypsometrical connection to be traced between Jebel Hunin, Abl, and Banias (alt. 1,080 feet).

Eecurring to Jebel Hunin, the waterparting on the north of that summit, appears to have its highest points at Odeitha (alt. 2,215 feet), and at Neby 'Aueidah (alt. 2,814 feet). For rather more than three miles south of Jebel Hunin, the slope from the waterparting to the Huleh Plain, is rapid and some- times rocky and precipitous, with an average fall of one in two. This aspect terminates at the distance mentioned, in a summit without a special name, but connected with Jebel esh Shakarah, and having five or six spurs diverging from it in all directions. The altitude is unknown. The waterparting which has reached this point from the north, here bends abruptly to the west, for about half a mile, then south-west