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618 SOUTHERN BELQA AND ARDH EL-KERAK
The shorter rise under the crest of the plateau, and reach
the Dead Sea by a direct course. But the larger rise
beyond the Hejaz railway on the hills forming the water
shed between the Dead Sea and W. Sirhan and extending from
Jebel Hajanajeim in the S., through J. esh-Shefa, to J. el-
Mashqal in the N. ; these wadis thus cut their way across
the whole breadth of the plateau, and as its main slope is
against them, the valleys which they form are of exceptional
depth.
These larger watercourses rising in the interior E. of the
plateau-crest, may now first be described, and afterwards the
lesser wadis which begin under the escarpment.
Sett el-Mojib, commonly known as Wadi M 5 jib, the great
watercourse of the country E. of the Dead Sea, rises on the
slope of Jebel el-Hafreh, NW. of J. el-Hajanajeim some 55 m.
as the crow flies SSE. of its mouth. Known at first as Ghadir
es-Sultan and Wadi es-Sultani, it receives as chief tributaries,
on the 1. bank, Ghadir el-Abyadh (W. esh-Shermeh), a long
but non-perennial watercourse with several branches (W. es-
Suquri, W. ‘Useimer &c.) rising NE. of Dhat-Ras ; and on
the r. bank, various long non-perennial affluents, the largest
of which is W. el-Musheish. Traversing broken limestone
hills, it receives on the 1., some 39 miles from its head, W. edh-
Dheiqeh, rising to SW. near Jafar, and successively known
as W. el-Mezebbel, W. el-Ghuweir, W. es-Seir and W. el-
Hanakein, in which last section it has perennial water. From
the junction with W. ed-Dheiqeh onwards, the main wadi
receives the name of Seil el-Mukheires, changed even before
the confluence with W. es-Sefei to that of Seil el-Mojib. A
couple of miles from the junction it receives on the 1 . a brook
from the great springs of Lejjun, and from this point is a
perennial stream. In this section of its course it is crossed
by the Qatraneh—Kerak road ; the ford, perhaps now bridged,
had long been an important one, used by those caravans from
the north which preferred the easier easterly course along the
Hajj road, wdiere the wadis are shallow, to the direct route
across the great gorges of the Waleh and Lower Mojib. N.