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THE ANCIENT CHALUS. [CHAP. XVIII.
bable that many of these masses have been left standing above
the surface, on what was at one time the bed of a great lake
or inland sea, in consequence of the softer materials about
them having, after the absorption of the waters, been gradually
removed.
TheKow^,or The plain is watered by the river Koweik, which has two
sources in the elevated ground southward of Ain-tab; and
the larger, owing to the abundance of its fish, has the name
of the Baluk Sii (fish river). It is formed by many rivulets
descending from the hills between Kilis and the village of
Kara Weyaw: after the junction of the streams, the trunk
takes an eastern course, and on entering the plain of Aleppo
a little beyond Sayyadok-ko'i, 1 it receives the northern branch,
which comes from the vicinity of Ain-tab; and soon after
wards through a canal constructed by Mr. Vincent Germain
of Aleppo, it is augmented by a portion of the waters of
Sajur : its elevation, on entering the plain, being about 1263
feet above the level of the sea.
its fish. There is but little doubt that this river is the Chalus of
Xenophon, 2 since its distance from Beilan is about 68 miles,
which, in a mountainous country, would require three long
marches, agreeably to the statement made in the work referred
to. Another coincidence may be observed in the quantity of
fish with which the river abounds : more particularly the
Aleppo eel 3 (Simmak Ingliz), the shad 4 (Babuge), and the
common loach 5 (Kebudi) ; one of which may have been the
representative of the Syrian divinity. 6 This fish is still pre
served with much veneration in the pond of Jami' Ibrahim
at O'rfah. 7
The small but abundant trunk of the Koweik winds south
ward along the shallow bed which it has scooped in the
plain of Aleppo, for a direct distance of about 40 miles to
Edrisi's description nearly coincides with this account; he says the
Koweik rises near the village of Sindb, six miles from Dabec.—Jaubert's
Translation, Recueil de Voyages, &c., tome VI., p. 136.
2 Anabasis, lib. I. 3 Ophidium masbacambelus.
4 One of the Siluri. 8 Barbus vulgaris.
Ibid., lib. I. 7 Plate XXXIV., vol. II., is a view of this mosque.