^52 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 Conjundtures 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 Ki/Jjon, 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 Kijhon 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 1 found It, in the middle oi^pril, when I pafled It. 

 The River Bevoud the Sources o^ the Ki/bon to the S. E. and alone the 



Belus or ■' ^ c 



Kar-danah. Banks of it to the N. E. there are feveral Hillocks, which fepa- 

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

 Acre 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 Kijhon, on the other Side of thefe 

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

 may in all Probability, be the Cendev'ia ' of Tlmy. Now the 

 River jBe/z^.y lying open to the Plains of ^cre -mdi Efdraelon, there 

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

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

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

 the fame Direction, that hath been hitherto afligned by 

 Geographers. 



ScS? "^ Leaving Mount Carmel to the N. W. we pafs over the S. W. 

 Corner of the Plain o^Efdraelon, the Lot formerly of the Tribe 

 of Iffachar, and the moft fertil Portion of the Land oWanaan. 

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

 our Profpe6t is bounded, at about fifteen Miles Diftance, by the 

 Mountains of Hermon and Tabor y and by thofe, upon which 

 the City of Nazareth is fituated. Advancing farther into the 

 Half Tribe of ManaJJeh, 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 fucli a Conjiindure as this, that the River Kifhon fwept the Hofi of 

 Sifera a%vay, that amient River, the Rhvr Ki/hon. Judg. y. 21. 2 Rivus Pagida five Belus, 

 vitri fertiles arenas parvo litori mifccns. Ipfe e palude Cendevia a radicibus Cnmeli profluit. 

 Plitt. 1. y. cap 19. 



Ground, 



