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15 WADY EL EZZIYEH. 15

'Ain Ibal, (formerly 'Ain Baal) and enters the sea at er Rushei- diyeh, within three miles south of Tyre.

Next on the south is another minor basin beginning near Yater, on the south-west of Kefrah. Its main channel, in the upper part, bears the name of Wady Nettarah. It runs north-west to el-Kuneiseh, where it receives a small branch from the village of Kana, and there bends at right angles on its way to Deir Kanun, Shema'aiyeh, and the coast, which it reaches at Ras el 'Ain. The relation of this wady to the places connected with it in former maps is materially altered by the new survey.

The basin of Wady el Ezziyeh is quite confined to the banks of the wady for three miles above its outfall into the sea. It becomes about two miles wide where the main channel is sunk in a deep gorge below the village of Zubkin, which stands on the waterparting between the Ezziyeh and the minor basins on the north. East of the mountain of Kh. Belat (alt. 2,467 feet) and crossing the villages of Beit Lif and Ramia, the basin has a width of about four miles. Further east the basin attains to its greatest width, or ten miles, between the waterparting at Haris on the north, and at Sasa on the south. From the mouth of Wady el Ezziyeh on the west to Marun er Ras (alt. 3,083 feet) on the east, the distance in a straight line is about 16 miles. At Marun er Ras the waterpartings of the Ezziyeh, Kasimiyeh, and Jordan basins meet.

Between the sea and the neighbourhood of Kefrah, the basin of Wady el Ezziyeh is coteiminous with the minor basins of Leileh, Nettai ah, and 'Akkab. Near the villages of Kefrah, Haris, and Hadd&tha, it meets the Hubeishiyeh basin. From thence to Marun er Ras it runs south-easterly with the Kasimiyeh basin. From Marun er Ras to Sasa its course is south-westerly along the waterparting of the Jordan, or more particularly, the tributary basin of the Jordan which has its outfall through Wady Hindaj into Lake Huleh. Near Sasa is the southernmost limit of the Ezziyeh basin ; and here the waterparting bends at a right angle to the north-west, crossing