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42 42 THE MEDITERRANEAN WATERSHED.

Meshal (alt. 556 feet) and then zigzags south-westward to Beit JSTabala (alt. 260 feet), where it receives the Wady Shahhi from Shukbah (alt. 1,058 feet), and Kibbiah (alt. 840 feet), and enters the plain, through which it proceeds by Deir Tureif and Kh. er Eas, to the junctions at el Kurab and Kefr 'Ana.

The next outfall at Kefr 'Ana receives the greater part of the drainage of this division. It combines two separate drainage systems, which respectively concentrate in the Wady esh Shellal and the Wady Ludd, and these unite midway between Kefr 'Ana and the ancient town of Ludd. The Wady esh Shellal was formerly known as Wady Budrus.

The interior or sub-waterparting between the systems of Wady esh Shellal and Wady Ludd, is traceable from Jindas on the north of Ludd, over a trigonometrical station of 222 feet in height, to Deir Abu Selameh, Kh. Midieh (the remains of Modin of the Maccabees), and by the high- road to Shilta and Kefr Eut (alt. 1,290 feet), where it skirts Kh. Fa'aush and Kh. ed Dirish, and reaches Beit Ur et Tahta or Lower Beth Horon (alt. 1,910 feet). Here it ascends the pass to Beit 'Ur el Foka or Upper Beth Horon (alt. 1,022 feet), and follows the high road between Jaffa and Jerusalem, till it reaches the top of the descent into Wady el Askar, where this sub-waterparting joins the main waterparting, between the Basins of Nahr el Auja and Nahr Eubin,

The Watercourses falling into Wady Shellal (Budrus}.

The northernmost of these channels rises at Kh. Bir ez Zeit (alt. 2,665 feet) and runs north-westward alongside of the sub-waterparting and the high-road to Jaffa, nearly to Neby Saleh (alt. 1,866 feet). Here the channel bends about con- siderably in advancing westward, through a valley having Deir en Nidham (alt. 1,934 feet), Tibneh, Deir Abu Meshal (alt. 556 feet), and Shukbah (alt. 1,058 feet) on the north ; while on the south are the villages of Kubar (alt. 2,021 feet), Beit Ello (alt. 1,797 feet), Jemmaleh (alt. 1,694 feet), and Shebtin (alt. 904 feet).