This is a mountain tarn, varying in size as the season is wet or dry, but never apparently more than about seven miles long, by five or six broad.

It is situated at the lower extremity of the plain called Huleh, and is almost entirely surrounded by flat marshy ground, thickly set with reeds and canes, which make the lake itself almost unapproachable.

The depth of the Huleh is not known.

It is a favorite resort of aquatic birds, and is said to contain an abundant supply of fish.
The Bahr-el-Kades, or Lake of Hems, lies on the course of the Orontes, about 139 miles N.N.E.of Merom, and nearly the same distance south of the Lake of Antioch.

It is a small sheet of water, not more than six or eight miles long, and only two or three wide, running in the same direction with the course of the river, which here turns from north to north-east.