^^2 Geographical Ohfervations 



falls on the eaftern Side of the Mountain, or upon the rifmg 

 Ground to the Southward, emptieth Itfelf into It in a Number 

 of Torrents ; at which Conjunotures It overfloweth it's Banks, 

 acquireth a wonderful Rapidity, and fweeps away ' all before 

 It. But thefe Inundations are extemporaneous only, without 

 any Duration ; for the Courfe of the Kifljon, which is not above 

 feven Miles in Length, is continued all the Way, 'till within 

 half a League s Diftance of the Sea , in a great Defcent. It 

 may be further obferved, that, when the Κϊβοη is not aug- 

 mented by thefe accidental Torrents, it never falls into the 

 Sea in a full Stream, but lofeth Itfelf in a Bank of Sand, which 

 the North Winds throw up againft the Mouth of It. In this 

 Manner I found It, in the middle of ^pri/, when I paifed It. 

 The River Beyond the Sources of the Κφοη to the S. E. and along the 

 Kar-danah. Battks of it to the N. E. there are feveral Hillocks, w'hich fepa- 

 rate the Valley, through which it runs, from the Plains of 

 ^cre and Efdraelon. The River Belus, the Kar-danah as it 

 is called at prefent, hath it's Sources about four Miles to the 

 Eaftward of the Ras el Κϊβοη, on the other Side of thefe 

 Hillocks, where there are feveral Ponds, the largeft whereof^ 

 may in all Probability, be the Cendei}'ia ' of Tliny. Now the 

 RivQvBelus lying open to the Plains oi^cre zxidiEfdraelon, there 

 is Room to fuppofe that fuch Brooks as arife from Mount Tahor 

 may communicate with it ; but the Κιβοη, I prefume, for the 

 Reafons already given, cannot : neither indeed doth it run in 

 the fame Diredion, that hath been hitherto affigned by 

 Geographers. 

 iffacSf' '^ Leaving Mount Carmel to the N. W. we pafs over theS. W. 

 Corner of the Plain οϊΕβναεΙοη, the Lot formerly of the Tribe 

 of Iffachar, and the moil fertil Portion of the Land oiCanaan. 

 The moft extenfive Part of it lyeth to the Eaftward, where 

 our Profped is bounded, at about fifteen Miles Diftance, by the 

 Mountains of Herman and Tahor, and by thofe, upon which 

 the City of Nazareth is fituated. Advancing farther into the 

 Half Tribe of Manaffeh, we have ftill a fine arable Country, 

 though not fo level as the former ; where the Landskip is 

 changed every Hour by the Intervention of fome Piece of rifing 



I It might be at fuch a Conjundure as this, that the River Kiihon fii'ept the Ηοβ of 

 Slfcra Awaj, that Atitient River, the River Ki/hon. ^udg. y. 21. 2 Rivus Pagida five Belus, 

 vitri fertilcs arenas parvo litori milcens. Ipfe e paludc Cendeyia a radicibus Cartneli profiuit. 

 Flin. 1. y. cap. 19. 



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