British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 104

CHAPTER III.

3. Lake Huleh, with an area of 14 square kms., is 70 m. (230 ft.) above mean sea level; Lake Tibereas, with an area of 165 square kms., is 209 m. (686 ft. l below mean sea level: the Dead Sea, with. a total area of 1,050 square kms., is 392, m. (1,286 ft.) below mean sea level. The length of the Dead Rea is 82 kms. and its breadth 17 kms.; its maximum depth is 399 m. (1,310 ft.); it has no outlet, its surplus being carried off by evaporation.

4. The total length of the River Jordan from its source near Banias in the extreme north-easterly tip of Palestine to the Dead Sea is 252 kms. (157 miles) : North of Lake Huleh, 14 kms.; through Lake Huleh, 5 kms.; from Lake Huleh to LakeT'iberias 18 kms.; in the course of which it drops 279 m. (915 ft.); through Lake Tiberi as 21 kms., and from Lake Tiberias to the Dead Sea, 194 kms. The Yarrmuk , which enters the Jordan near Jisr Mejamie, a few kilometres south of Lake Tiberias , is 40 kms. long, of which only 17 kms. are in Palestine. The Qishon (otherwise Muqattla which enters the Bav of Acre a short distance east of Haifa is 13 kms. long. The Anja (otherwise Yarkon), which enters the Mediterranean at Tel Aviv, is 26 kms. long.

5. Administratively, the country is divided into six districts, which in turn are divided into sixteen sub-districts. Their land areas are (in square kms) :-

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