'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [‎314v] (633/738)

622 SOUTHERN BELQA AND ARDH EL-KERAK
time bears the name of W. Jawad, but before the confluence
with Seil el-Medabegh receives its final name of El-Maliheh :
in this lowest part of its course it is joined by the deep W. es-
Saqreh from the N. Beyond the confluence with W. el-Maliheh,
the Kerak wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. , now called W. ed-Defali, broadens out, the
fertile slope Qubbet ‘Abd es-Seyyid, extending on the r. bank
as far as Seil edh-Dhuweihek, which brings down a perennial
brook : between the town and this point it has run first
W., then NNW. latterly assuming the fresh name of W. es-
Sebsabiyeh ; there are here springs both on the r, and the
1. banks. From Seil edh-Dhuweihek the wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. , now called
Seil es-Saddeh and Seil el-Qadhi, passes into an inaccessible
gorge between Qenan Qadeib and Umm Kiteh on the r., and
the ridges of Sarj Abu Halaq and El-Kharri on the 1. It runs
thus for about 4J m., the sides of the gorge clearly showing
the superposition of the limestone on the sandstone, and
finally issues through sandstone rocks in the alluvial ground
of El-Mezra‘ (see above, p. 617). Here it is known as Seil
el-Buksaseh, and receives on the 1. the perennial Seil edh-Dhra‘
which has run almost parallel with it for some 5 | miles on
the S. side of Sarj Abu Halaq.
The following are the more important of the lesser wadis,
beginning with those issuing from the hills near the head of
the Dead Sea, to the S. of W. Kefrein.
W. el-Jorfeh runs SW. into the lower Jordan, after a short
course beginning W. of Tell el-Matabeh; it crosses the Gh 5 r
between shallow banks, having on the N. side Tell Ghassul,
a small hill with a few dilapidated houses.
W. Ayun Musa, called after the springs of the same name
(see p. 628), below which it is perennial, runs at first in a
narrow valley with high ground on both sides, especially to
N., and with occasional trees and patches of cultivation in
the broader parts of its valley. Where it leaves the hills and
crosses the Ghor, it is in many parts so densely filled with
scrub as to be almost impassable, but here and there, in spite
of broken banks some 30 ft. high, it can be crossed by cavalry.
W. Jedeid, called, near its mouth W. Ghuweir, and in its middle