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HAURAN AND JAULAN
thickly covered with oleanders and cane-brakes : the gorge
now widens to about 500 yds., the banks are less steep, and
the stream receives much water from lateral springs and
brooks.
Wadi Zeidi (‘Aweiret Zeizun) rises in J. ed-Druz, north of
Salkhad, and passing the Nuqrah of the Hauran, touches Der‘a,
some distance below which it is known as W. el-Meddan; in this
section it is joined on the right bank by W. ed-Dahab from J.
ed-Druz, a long watercourse with shallow bed and no perennial
stream, falling about 2,700 ft. in its length of over 40 miles.
Beyond Tell esh-Shehab (SW. of Muzeirib) it is joined on the
same side by W. el-Bajjeh flowing from the Bajjeh lake. It
is now for a time called Wadi Tell esh-Shehab, until it receives,
also on the right bank, Moyet Zeizun, the name of which it
takes until its confluence with Sherfet el-Menadhireh. It has
two large southern tributaries : W. el-Butm, with its affluent
W. el-‘Aqib, rising on the spurs of J. Hauran, runs for about
45 miles in a broad rocky bed with shallow banks, and comes
in about 12 miles above Der‘a; W. Shomar, said to rise on the
W. foot of J. ez-Zumleh near the Hajj road, runs for a long
distance parallel with W. esh-Shellaleh, cuts through the
plain of Naku‘ near Remteh and deepens its bed to more
than 30 ft. near its mouth, about 1 mile W. of Tell esh-
Shehab: both are ‘ winter wadis ’, without perennial streams.
Throughout its upper course, where it traverses the lava,
W. Zeidi does not cut deep into the plain. At Umm el-
Meyadln, where it enters the limestone formation, it abrades
the foot-hills of J. ez-Zumleh, forming steep banks on the S.
side; only near Tell esh-Shehab does it cut itself a deep bed.
It has no perennial brook, but there are springs about Bosrah,
and again at Der‘a, where there are six, two, ‘Ain el-Mesari
and ‘Ain et-Tawileh, yielding good drinking water, the others
brackish.
Wadi esh-Shelldleh, in its middle and lower course the boun
dary between ‘Ajlun and the Hauran, rises far to S., its upper
branches descending from the water-shed of Jebel ‘Ajlun
west of Suf, and from a point north of Jerash; until it reaches