The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . classical authors is now Nahr-Ibrahim. We have as yet no direct evidence as toth( PliOQuician name of this river ; it was probably identical with that of tho divinity worshipped onits banks. The fact of a river bearing the name of a god is not surprising: the Belos, in theneighbourhood of Acre, aiTords us a parallel case to the Adonis (Renan, Mission da Th^iiicie,p. 283). The present Nahr ol-Kelb is the Lykos of classical authors. Tho Due do Luyuos (Voyagederploralion a la mer Morle, vol. i. p. .I, u. 1) thought he recognized a corrupti
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . classical authors is now Nahr-Ibrahim. We have as yet no direct evidence as toth( PliOQuician name of this river ; it was probably identical with that of tho divinity worshipped onits banks. The fact of a river bearing the name of a god is not surprising: the Belos, in theneighbourhood of Acre, aiTords us a parallel case to the Adonis (Renan, Mission da Th^iiicie,p. 283). The present Nahr ol-Kelb is the Lykos of classical authors. Tho Due do Luyuos (Voyagederploralion a la mer Morle, vol. i. p. .I, u. 1) thought he recognized a corruption of the Phcoiiicianname in that of Alcobile, which is mentioned hereabouts in the Itinerary of tho pilgrim of order of the Itinerary does not favour this idontificatinn, and Alcobile is probably Jebail (M. dkVogOk, Melawjes dArch. Orientale, pp. 16, 17) : it is none the less probable that tho original name oftho Nahr el Kelb contained from earliest times the Phaiuiciau equivalent of the Arab word lilh, dog. 10 THE FIBST CHALDJUAN THE MOST NOKTHEEN SOUKCE OF THE .lORDAS, THE NAHR EL-HASBAXY. crevasse, fortiliziug the valley formed by it from end to end.^ Its principalsource is at Tell el-Qadi, where it rises out of a basaltic mound whose summitis crowned by the ruins of Laish.^ The water collects in an oval rocky basinhidden by bushes, and flows down among the brushwood to join the Nahrel-Hasbany, which brings the waters of the upper torrents to swell its stream; ^a little lower down it mingles with the Banias branch,^ and winds for sometime amidst desolate marshy meadows before disappearing in the thick beds ofrushes bordering Lake Huleh. At this point the Jordan reaches the level of Drawn by Boudier, from a pliotograpli by the Due de Luynes, Voyage dexploration a la mer Morte, vol. iv. pi. 59. = The Jordan is mentioned in the Egyptian texts under the name of Yorduua {Anastasi Papyrus,No. 1, pi. xxiii. 1. 1): the name appears to mean the descender, the d
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