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ABANA (or AMANAH, classical Chrysorrhoas)  and PHARPAR, the " See also:rivers of See also:Damascus " (2 See also:Kings v . 12), now generally identified with the Barada (i.e . " See also:cold ") and the A'waj (i.e . " crooked ") respectively, though if the reference to Damascus be limited to the See also:city, as in the Arabic version of the Old Testament, Pharpar would be the See also:modern Taura . Both streams run from See also:west to See also:east across the See also:plain of Damascus, which owes to them much of its fertility, and lose themselves in marshes, or lakes, as they are called, on the See also:borders of the See also:great Arabian See also:desert . See also:John M'Gregor, who gives an interesting description of them in his Rob See also:Roy on the See also:Jordan, affirmed that as a See also:work of See also:hydraulic See also:engineering, the See also:system and construction of the canals, by which the See also:Abana and Pharpar were used for See also:irrigation, might be considered as one of the most See also:complete and extensive in the See also:world . As the Barada escapes from the mountains through a narrow See also:gorge, its See also:waters spread out See also:fan-like, in canals or " rivers," the name of one of which, Nahr Banias, retains a trace of Abana .

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