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190 190 THE MOUNTAINS OF UPPER GALILEE.

Kades. The edges of the western highland form the Western Eange which will now be made out from the New Survey.

Western Ranye.

The Southern Range will be used as the starting-point of the Western, as it was of the Eastern Eange. Although no intermediate altitude is found on the Southern Range between Neby Heider (alt. 3,440 feet) and Kurn Hennawy (alt. 1,872 feet), yet the height of Kisra (alt. 2,520 feet) on the north of the Southern Range, indicates the junction of the Kisra spur with the Southern Range, as the probable point of departure for the culminating summits of the western slope.

A cue to the course of the Western Range is found in the western-most observations rising above 2,000 feet. That guidance leads from the short spur dominated by Kisra, north- westward to Kh. Jubb Ruheij (alt. 2,320 feet), near Yanuh (alt. 2,200 feet). North of Jubb Ruheij is'Kh. ed Dubsheh (alt. 2,050 feet) near Teirshiha (alt. 1,810 feet). About a mile further north is Malia (alt. 1,800 feet), and about the same distance beyond, this line of heights is intersected by the rocky gorge of Wady el Kurn. Two miles north of the gorge, the line of heights is taken up by Tell Belat (alt. 2,020 feet) in the secondary basin of Wady Kerkera.

Before leaving the line of the western heights on the south of the Wady el Kurn, it should be observed that it corresponds very closely with the waterparting which divides the upper expansion of the Kurn basin, from the heads of a series of five minor basins, that have their outfalls into the sea between Wady el Kurn and Nahr N'amein. On the inner, upper, and eastern side of this part of the Western Range, the principal watercourses are parallel to this range ; while on the outer, lower, and western side the watercourses rising in the range, pass off towards the sea, at right angles to it. The Western Range crosses the Wady el Kurn, where the gorge running from south to north, takes a westerly course* and descends to 495 feet above the sea, at the foot of Kulat