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18 being meant to be personally invidious, are only recorded as proofs of the value of the Palestine Exploration Survey, and the impossibility of placing dependence on observations of a less exhaustive character.

It remains to be said that the Kerkera basin stretches southward from the summit of Jebel Mushakkah over a distance of three or four miles, its southern margin passing through Kh. 'Abdeh, Kh. Jelil, and Fassitah. Tel Belt (alt. 2,020 feet) rises in the midst of the basin. The head of the basin on the east, runs with the southern part of the Upper Ezzîyeh, between Kh. Belât (alt. 2,467 feet), and Jebel Adâther (alt. 3,300 feet). Its length is about 15 miles,

This is the Nahr Herdawil of some writers. Although, at its outfall into the sea, this basin is separated from the outfall of Wady el Ezzîyeh, by several minor basins and the great headlands of Ras en Nakûra and Ras el Abyad, these two basins meet together in the highlands at Jebel Adâther, (alt. 3,300 feet), and by their junction divide the basins of Wady Kerkera and the Jordan, both of which also approach Jebel Adâther on the north-west and south-east respectively.

Between the sea and the north-western roots of Jebel Adâther, the basin of Wady el Kûrn is bounded by that of Wady Kerkera. Next to Jebel Adâthar and the Ezzîyeh basin, the Karn basin falls in contact with three great divisions of the Jordan basin, which have their outfalls: (1) by Wady Hindaj into Lake Huleh; (2) by Wady Amûd, which drains Safed into the Sea of Galilee; (3) by Wady er Rubbudiyeh, which like Wady Amûd reaches the Sea of Galilee through the Ghuweir or Plain of Gennesaret. This section of the boundary of the basin is the source of its head waters, and encircles them by mountains of the greatest height in Galilee, for south-east of Jebel Adâther is Jebel Jurmuk (alt.