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REPORT 1856. 



Levellings by Aneroid Metallique from Jerusalem through Hebron to the Dead 



Sea, compared with the level of the Mediterranean Sea at Joppa. 



November 1855. 



Distance in 

 Miles. 







2 



3 



6^ 



7 



7* 



8 



9 

 10 

 13 

 14i 

 17 



19 



191 



20 



221 



24i 



27 



291 



30 



311 



33 



35 



38 



39 



42 



43 



45 



46 



47 



48 i 



49 



50 



52 



53i 



551 



564 



58 



59 



Names of Places. 



Jerusalem, at Hezekiah's Pool 



Elijah's Convent 



Rachel's Tomb 



Vale of Artas, at junction of Wadies 



Ditto, Meshallutn's house 



Aqueduct at Pools of Solomon 



Upper Pool, ditto 



Ridge , 



Wady em Bir, or wells 



Ridge 



Khan Khul 



Camp at Hebron, near Lazaretto 



Tomb, " Cave of Makpelah " 



Abraham's Oak, valley of Eshcol 



Ain es Lin 



Temple ruins at Manne 



Ridge 



Valley 



Ridge 



Ruins of Ziph on left hand (] mile off) 



Ruins Em Sirkan 



Birket el Kurmel (Carrael) 



Ain Tawaoa 



Ridge 



Ridge 



Tawan, Camp of the Djahalins 



Bir Tabaca 



Ridge 



Wady 



Ridge 



Wady el Mahras, or Drippings 



Ridge 



Ermeli (view of Dead Sea) 



Wady 



Plain 



Bed of Dervish (found a coin) 



Wady of Bazaar 



Passed near a supposed crater 



Nejeb (view of Dead Sea) 



Tower, El Zuweireh 



Camp at Usdum 



Shore of Dead Sea (Lynch, —1316-7; Symonds, —1312) 

 Summit of " El Lisan," or the Peninsula 



Height in 

 feet with 

 Mediter- 

 ranean Sea. 



2061 

 2207 

 2111 

 1860 

 1896 

 2144 

 2251 

 2361 

 2298 

 2596 

 2716 

 2402 

 2368 

 2502 

 2586 

 2800 

 2438 



2402 



2294 



2304 



2234 



2074 



2227 



1779 



1759 



1501 



1521 



1340 



1424 



1156 



1447 



1702 



986 



1106 



931 



895 



533 



298 



4 



- 968 



-1176 



— 1313-5 



- 1063-5 



Levellings from Jerusalem to Dead Sea by Nebi Mousa. 



Road branches to Jericho 



Durbez zuar 



Ridge with flints 



Junction of Wadies 



705 

 708 

 607 

 209 



