TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 



45 



Distance in 

 Miles. 



Names of Places. 



Height in 

 feet with 

 Mediter- 

 ranean Sea. 



10 

 10 J 



11* 



12 



13 



14 



154 



It 



18| 



20 



Vertical Chalk 



Dry Wady 



Chalk 



Pointed rocks 



Ridge (red-coloured limestone) ... 

 Nebi Mousa (bituminous limestone) 



Ridge 



Base of mountain 



Plain 



Dead Sea 



353 



273 

 353 

 286 



— 156 



— 329i 



— 288 



— 781 



— 1080 

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Levellings by Aneroid Metallique along the west shore of the Dead Sea, commen- 

 cing at the south end from Usdum to Jericho. November 1855. 



* The Brine-spring issues out of the rocks about 100 yards distant from the shore of the 

 Dead Sea ; and the fish " Lebias " were caught in this spring at three yards' distance from the 

 shore of the Dead Sea, and to which they had free access. 



