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PHYSICAL FEATURES 529
town of Mejdel. The Hamam takes its rise near the village
of Hattin.
Wadi ‘Amud, the principal wadi falling directly into Lake
Tiberias, takes its rise in the neighbourhood of J. el-Jermaq, and
the basin contains the noted town of Safed situated on a height
on its left bank. It has mainly a south-south-easterly course,
and, after crossing the Ghuweir plain, enters the lake at Tell
el-Henud. Its middle and upper courses, composed of gorges of
striking depth, are known as W. et-Tawahin and W. Meirun
respectively. Safed is approached from the south by a small
but remarkably picturesque valley, with a N. to S. course, which
falls into W. ‘Amud on the left bank, some 6 miles from its
mouth.
Wadi el-Hindaj, known in its upper reaches asW. Farahand
W. ‘Auba, is the principal wadi leading into Lake Huleh. It has
its head-waters near those of W. el-Qarn, rising from J. el-
Jermaq. The wadi, after making a great semicircular curve
to the north, descends the mountains by an extraordinarily
rocky and precipitous chasm ; on reaching the plain, the
stream bears suddenly to the eastward and so crosses the
Ardh el-Kheit, a small plain, to Lake Huleh.
(c) Wadis running north into the Qasimiyeh. Of these the
principal is W. el-Hajeir, with its much longer tributary,
W. Seluqiyeh. The latter rises at Marun er-Rus, and, running
N. between the main and secondary watersheds of Upper
Galilee, joins the Hajeir in a deep gorge on the east of Burj
el-Alawi. W. el-Hajeir itself rises just NE. of Tibnin and
falls into the Qasimiyeh near the bridge, Jisr el-Qa‘qa‘Iyeh.
The length of its basin N. and S. exceeds 14 miles.
E. of Wadi el-Hajeir, the Qasimiyeh, in bending sharply to
the west, receives W. ‘Aizaqaneh, which rises near Hunin and
has a due northerly course of about 6 miles. The other
tributary wadis of the Qasimiyeh are short and unimportant.
Rivers.
The Nahr el-Muqatta' (River Kishon), is the most im
portant river in Palestine after the Jordan. It drains the
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