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On receiving this stream, the Auly turns almost at a right angle, and flows to the west down the fine alluvial track called Merj Bisry, passing from this point through comparatively low ground, and between swelling hills, until it reaches the sea two miles to the north of Sidon. Its entire course is not less than sixty miles. The Zaherany repeats on a smaller scale the course of the Bostrenus.
Fine fountains also burst from the earth in the plain itself, as the Ain-el-Kanterah and the Ain-el-Burak, between Sarepta and the Zaherany river. Irrigation is easy and is largely used, with the result that the fruits and vegetables of Saida and its environs have the name of being among the finest of the country.
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