Jordan (Princiwhich nding)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

the princiwhich nding"), the principal river of Palestine, the bed of from N. e, the bed of which forms a great valley stretching . stretching from N. to S., in the E. part of the country It of three of the country. It is formed by the junction junction of three source of the Jorstreams. The highest source of the Jorthe dan is the Hasbany, which rises near hich rises near the Druse town of Ha ya, on the W. side Hasbeiya, on the W. side of Mount Hermon. There is another moun- There is another spring on the S. side of the same of the same nountain at Bânias (Paneas or Cæsarea Philippi), and the Leddan at Dan. The course of a idan at Dan. The Jordan flows S., and after a after a course of a little over 100 miles, having passed (The e, having passed through the small Huleh Lake Huleh Lake (The Waters of Merom) and the Lake of and the Lake of Tiberius (Sea of Galilee), 682 feet below lee), 682 feet below the Mediterranean, it falls into the N. exfalls into the N. extremity of the DEAD SEA (q. v.), 1,292 . Besides SBA (9.0.), 1,292 feet below the Mediterranean streams erranean. Besides smaller affluents, it receives four , and Wady Kelt from ceives four streams, the Wady Far'ah ad Wady Kelt from the W., the Hieromax and Jabbok from feet above x and Jabbok from the E. The source is 1,700 is 1,700 feet above making a total fall when it reaches the Dead Sea of 3,000 Dead Sea of 3,000 system of waterworks; 2 feet. The Upper Jordan was first explored by John McGregor in his Rob Roy rdan was first exand daily, weekly, and monthly igor in his Rob Roy STARR, na Amer-