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 with other ruins of the same name, and also for the junction of the Wady Zerka from the east, which is identified with the River Jabbok of the Bible.



The western edge of the basin has its northern extremity at a point midway between Tubâs and el Judeideh, the latter being in the inland basin of Merj el Ghuruk, which runs with the Fâr'ah for about three miles. For about a mile and a-half north east of Yasid (alt. 2,240 feet) the Fâr'ah basin runs with that of Nahr el Mefjir, which has a source of its southern branch near Yasid. From Yasid to the south of Mount Gerizim or Jebel et Tor, the western edge of the Far'ah runs with the basin of Nahr Iskanderuneh, and passes over Mount Ebal or Jebel Eslamiyeh, and on the east of the town of Nablûs. From Mount Gerizim, the edge of the Fâr'ah basin takes a south-easterly course across the plains, between the plains of Sahel Mukhnah and Sahel Rujib, and reaches the ridge of el Jeddua. Along this part the Far'ah basin runs with the Kanah section of the el 'Auja basin. From el Jeddua it makes a bend to the north-east, over et Tuwanik (alt. 2,847 feet) to Sheikh Kamil (alt. 1,920 feet), here the south-easterly course of the edge of the basin is resumed; and continues through Daluk, Umm Halal (alt. 1,360 feet), Ras Kaneiterah, and the noted Kurn Surtubeh (alt. 1,244 feet) to el Mermaleh in the plain which is here depressed 889 feet below the sea, and about three miles south-eastward it reaches the Jordan. From el Jeddua to the Jordan, the Fâr'ah is coterminous with Wady el Humr, which succeeds it on the south. The length of the basin is about thirty miles from north-west to south-east; and its greatest breadth is about twelve miles in its upper part, and about six miles lower down.

The western extremity or head of the Farah Basin is divided into two distinct parts, northern and southern; the 