262 By Stream aud Sea. 



it is now the Israelites did not gain much by their flight from 

 the flesh-pots of Pharaoh. 



The lofty hills skirting the tableland of the interior may 

 be, and some of them are, grand in their outline, but it 

 cannot be forgotten that they stand direction posts to the 

 Wilderness of the Wanderings. The sides of the hills and 

 rocks appear to have been calcined by a terrible convulsion, 

 and in places to have been seared as with a hot iron. The 

 occasional glimpses of Arabia and Nubia as you pass down 

 the Red Sea are of the same hard, burnt, treeless character, 

 and the only attractiveness lies in the fantastic forms of the 

 granite peaks and spurs. These, looked at with the most 

 interesting historical associations as motive power, are of 

 course not to be neglected, but the observer who had 

 recently been reading highly-coloured accounts of what the 

 Prince of Wales was to wonder at in his passage through the 

 Red Sea would not obtain the superb views he had been led 

 to expect. 



