The course of the Litany may be roughly estimated at from 70 to 75 miles.
The Barada, or river of Damascus, rises in the plain of Zebdany--the very centre of the Antilibanus.

It has its real permanent source in a small nameless lake in the lower part of the plain, about lat.

33 deg.
41'; but in winter it is fed by streams flowing from the valley above, especially by one which rises in lat.

33 deg.

46', near the small hamlet of Ain Hawar.