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northern slope contributes partly to the Mukutt'a, but chiefly to Wady el Bireh. The waterparting between the Mediter- ranean and Jordan watersheds, ascends to the summit of the mountain from its northern base, passing on the east of the village of Nein (where Our Lord restored the widow's son to life), and it descends westward by the main ridge to the Plain of Esdraelon and the village of el 'Afuleh. This village must be distinguished from its neighbour on the east called el Fuleh, as the latter is within the basin of Nahr Jalud, although both may have been within the compass of the towns that formerly stood here. Also on the northern side of the mountain are the miserable caves and huts of the village of Endor, where the wretched old women pour fanatical curses on passing Europeans, reminding them of Saul's visit there to the ancient sorceress.

Between Nain and Endor is a prominent hill with two summits named Tell el 'Ajjul, formed of basaltic rocks, which at a distance look like ruins.* Dr. Tristram observed a basaltic or trap dyke at the south-western base of the mountain, and he attributes the elevation of the mountain to it, during the period when the basalt flowed over these and other parts of Galilee.f

East of Endor, a depression in the upland containing the village of Tumrah (alt. 680 feet) cuts off the ridge of Mount Duhy from the lower range on the east ; and a spur sloping southward from Tumrah to Wady es Sidr, a branch of Nahr Jalud, combines with that wady to complete the eastern base of Jebel ed Duhy. The eastern slope is remarkable for an antique necropolis at Kh. Maluf.*

The south-western slope is drained by several branches into Wady el Hufiyir and Wady el Asmar, at the head of Nahr Jalud. Its base is spread out between Kh. Tub'aun, on the north of Ain Jalud and el 'Afuleh on the main water- parting between the Mediterranean and Jordan. The latter place has been identified by Mons. Guerin with Aphek,J on

J 1 Sam. xxviii, 4; xxix, 1 ; xxxi, 1.
 * Guerin, " Galilee " I, ch. vii, viii. f Tristram's " Land of Israel," 129.