THE 
EDINBURGH NEW 
PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL. 
On the Geography and Geology of the Peninsula of Mount 
Sinai, and the adjacent Countries. By JoHN Hoae, M.A., 
F.R.S., F.L.S.; Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geo- 
graphical Society, &.. (With a coloured Geological Map.) 
Communicated by the Author.* 
In giving a short account of the geography and geology of 
the Peninsula of Mount Sinai, and of the countries imme- 
diately adjoining to it, I propose, in the 
First place, to take a brief survey of the principal features 
of the Peninsula, beginning at Suez, and following the Sinaic 
coast of the Gulf of Suez, as far as its southern point at Ras 
Mohammed, and thence up the Sinaic coast of the Gulf of 
_ Akaba to its northern extremity. 
Secondly, From the Kalah-el-Akaba down the Arabian 
shores of that gulf, I will describe that region, the small 
islands of Tiran, Senafer, and others, which lie to the south 
of Ras Furtak, and then the districts near Ain Uneh, and 
Moweilih, on that Arabian coast. 
Thirdly, Passing from Moweilih up the Gulf of Akaba, I 
will give some views of it, of the Wadi-el-Araba, and of the 
neighbouring mountains as far north as the ruins of Petra. 
Fourthly, On the rocks of Petra I will offer a few re- 
* This memoir was read at Birmingham, on 17th September last, before the 
~ Section of Geology and Physical Geography of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science. 
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