^^4 Geographical Ohjervations 



through the Valleys of Jendilj, Rumeleah ^ηά Bedeah , that 

 are bounded, on each Side, by the Mountains of the Lower 

 Theha'is\ the other lyeth higher or to the Northward, having 

 thefe Mountains, for feveral Leagues, on the right Hand, and 

 the Defert of the Egyptian Arabia on the left, 'till we turn, 

 into the laft of the Valleys I have mentioned , through a re- 

 markable Breach or Difcontinuation in the northermoft Range 

 of thefe Mountains. 

 r^i liraeiites The Latter, 1 prefume, was the Road which the Ifraelites 

 wf^^^^"^took to the Red Sea \ being fomewhat longer than what leads us 

 diredly to Suez, which is a fmall City in Ruins, lituated upon the 

 Extremity of the Red Sea, at the Diftance of thirtyHoursTravel, 

 or ninety Roman Miles, from Kairo. Jofephus ' then, and other 

 Authors who Copy after him, feem to be too hafty in making 

 the Ifraelites perform this Journey in three Days, by reckon - 

 A Station i^g as They do, a Station for a Day, For the Scriptures are 



>iot always a ^ / _ . •' . *■ 



Day's Jour- fileut in this particular, recording, as it may be prefumed, the 

 Stations only. The Fatigue likewife would be too great, for a 

 Nation on Foot, incumbered with their Dough, their Knead- 

 ing Troughs, their little Children and Cattle, to walk, at the Rate 

 of thirty Miles a Day. Another Inftance of the fame Nature 

 occurs, Ex. 33. 9. where Elim is mentioned as the next Sta- 

 tion after Marah, though Thefe Places are further diftant from 

 each other, than Kairo is from the Red Sea. Several interme- 

 diate Stations therefore were omitted ; the Holy Penman con- 

 tenting himlelf with laying down fuch only as were the moft 

 remarkable. 



Succoth. Succoth then, the firft Station ' from Ramefes, fignifying 

 only a Place of Tents, may have no fixed or unalterable Situa- 

 tion ; being, probably, nothing more, than fome confiderable 

 'Dou-war Qitheipjmaelites οιΆγ ah Sjiuch as we meet with,to this 

 Day, at fifteen or twenty Miles Diftance from Kairo, in the 

 Road to the Red Sea. The Rendezvous of the Caravan, which 

 condud:ed our Company to Suez, was at one of thefe T)ou-wars\ 

 at the fame Time we faw another, about fix Miles diftant, near 

 the Mountains oi Moc-catte, in the fame Diredlion, the Ifraelites 

 may be fuppofed to have taken, in their Marches towards the 

 Red Sea. 



Antiq. I. 2. cap. y. in fine. 2 /ind the Children of Ifrael removed from Rameies, and pitched 

 {«Succoth. Numb. 53 ί 



Neither 



