Zarqa River by the King of Ammon. Eusebius places the river between Gerasa and Philadelphia. The headwaters of the Zarqa begin just northeast of Amman, rising from a spring named Ain Ghazal ("Gazelle spring"). The river flows to the north before heading west. Rising on the eastern side of the mountains of Gilead, it runs a course of about in a wild and deep ravine before flowing into the Jordan River between Gennesaret and the Dead Sea, at a point below its origin. At its higher reaches, the river banks are mostly steep and canyon-like. Near Ain Ghazal, two tributary wadis join
Dead River (Sabattus River tributary) Dead River (Sabattus River tributary) The Dead River is a tributary of Sabattus Pond in the U.S. state of Maine. Via the Sabattus River, the outflow of the pond, the Dead River is part of the Androscoggin River watershed, flowing to the Kennebec River and ultimately the Atlantic Ocean. The Dead River rises in the southern part of the town of Leeds and flows south, passing through the northwest corner of the town of Wales, then flowing through Greene to its outlet at the north end of Sabattus Pond. Another Dead River joins the Androscoggin River a short distance to