The average height of the whole district is from 1500 to 1800 feet above the Mediterranean.

Main elevations within it vary from 2500 to 4000 feet.
The axis of the range is towards the East, nearer, that is, to the Jordan valley than to the sea.

It is a peculiarity of the highland that there is one important break in it.

As the Lowland mountains of Scotland are wholly separated from the mountains of the Highlands by the low tract which stretches across from the Frith of Forth to the Frith of Clyde, or as the ranges of St.Gall and Appenzell are divided off from the rest of the Swiss mountains by the flat which extends from the Rhine at Eagatz to the same river at Waldshut, so the western highland of Palestine is broken in twain by the famous "plain of Esdraelon," which runs from the Bay of Acre to the Jordan valley at Beth-Shean or Scythopolis.
East of the Jordan no such depression occurs, the highland there being continuous.

It differs from the western highland chiefly in this--that its surface, instead of being broken up into a confused mass of rounded hills, is a table-land, consisting of a long succession of slightly undulating plains.