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wooded on its lower course, and it enters the Sheri‘eh 3-4
miles below the mouth of W. el-Ehreir.
Wadi d-Aqrabdi rises on the Kefarat watershed opposite
‘ Ain et-Turab. It follows a NW. and W. course of about
10 miles, making numerous bends, and falling some 2,000 ft.
From Kefr Som, about 2 miles from its head, a brook runs in
its bed for rather more than a mile. From Rafid it forms
a wild gorge with precipitous cliff sides : in this part of its
course it is known first as W. ‘Ulleiqeh then as W. Qaleit.
The lower course is perennial from Kefr Lahiyeh, 3-4 miles
above its mouth. The bed of this wadi is rocky and full of
caves ; above Sahem, the gorge is said to be 1,000 ft. deep.
W. Sha‘ib, its chief affluent, rises E. of Samar, and comes in
S. of Sahem after a course of 4-5 miles, only the lower part
of which has perennial water. There is wooded country about
its upper valley and cultivation on its slopes ; in the bottom
lands there are tobacco plantations and olive groves. A track
runs down its bed.
Wadi Samar, rising as W. ‘Ain et-Turab by the spring of that
name, flows NW. for 11 miles, known successively by the local
names of W. el Masabb, W. el-Hamra, Nahr Shaqq el-Bared
and W. ‘Ain el-Ghazaleh, under which latter name it enters
the Sheri‘eh near ‘Araq el-Heitallyeh. It carries a perennial
brook throughout; the banks and valley slopes are steep,
but not craggy, and are partly cultivated, partly overgrown
with terebinths and storax trees.
On the right (N.) bank, the Sheri‘eh receives IF. ez-Zeyydtin,
with a perennial stream, 5f miles below the junction of W.
Ehreir. But the chief tributary on this side is the Nahr er-
Ruqqdd, which rises at the foot of Mt. Hermon, but for a long
distance is an unimportant watercourse. It has a perennial
stream from Jisr er-Ruqqad, 3-4 miles NW. of Jisr el-‘Allan,
where the road from Bab et-Tumm to Nawa and Damascus
crosses. But shortly below the bridge it falls over a perpen
dicular cliff about 80 ft. high, and thence continues in
cascades over basaltic rocks in a deep narrow gorge
30—100 yds, wide until it is joined on the left bank by the