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| 3. THE WESTERN SHORE OF THE DEAD SEA. | ||
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| Ras Feshkah to Ras Meesid | 170 | |
| Dr Tristram's Map and the New Survey. Kas Feshkah. The Shore. Sulphur Spring. The intersecting Wadys. Plain of Engedi. Wady Sideir. Wady el Areijeh. Pass, plateaus, spring, and vast cliffs of 'Ain Jidy (Engedi, Cliff of Zor). | ||
| Ras Meesid to Sebbeh | 172 | |
| The Shore. Terraces. The Rock of Sebbeh. Ruins of Maasad. Wady Kuberah. Wady Seiyal. | ||
| PART IV. | ||
| THE HIGHLANDS OF WESTERN PALESTINE. | ||
| Introductory | 175 | |
| Relations of Streams and Plains to the Highlands. The Culminating Summits. Ranges. Edges of Plateaus. Altitudes. | ||
| The Mountains of Upper Galilee. | ||
| The Southern Range | 177 | |
| Summits. Base. Choice between Wady el Waziyeh with Wady esh Shaghur, and Wady el Halzun with Wady Shaib. Wady el Tawahin or the Safed Gorge. | ||
| The Eastern Range | 178 | |
| Summits. Altitudes wanting. Slope. Altitudes along the base line. Peculiar Descent of the Jordan into the Huleh Plain. The line of lowest depression between Mount Hermon and the Mediterranean Waterparting. The slopes around the Huleh Plain. Dr. Robinson's six terraces. The western slope of Nahr Bareighit. The hypsometrical connection between Jebel Hunin, Abl, and Banias. The summit north of Jebel Hunin and south of it around the Basins of Meis and Tufeh to Neby Muheibib and Deir el Ghabieh. Parallel Range on the west of Wady 'Aizakaneh, continuous with the range running south from Neby Muheibib. Plateau of Kades. Terraces of Malkiyeh and Belideh. Wady 'Arûs. Ard el Dawamin. Ard el Kheit. Wady Selukieh, Wady Hindaj, and Wady 'Amud. Jebel Kan'an. | ||
| The Western Slope and its Upper Plateaus | 189 | |
| The lower slope interrupts passage parallel to the coast-road by its valleys and ridges. Parallel passage restored by the upper plateaus of the Hubeishiyeh, Ezziyeh, and Kurn. | ||
