in Egypt, Arabia Petriea gjV. ^4.^ 



Neither is the Geography of Etham, the fecond Station, e^';^'"> //'>' 



*-" ^ -^ ' ^ ' Miles dtjtant 



much better circumftantiated : though if we may fuppofe it/""" ί^^'"^- 

 to belong to the Wildernefs ' of the fame Name, vvhichfpread^''/• 

 itfelf round the Heroopo/iian θΌ\γ\ι\ and made afterwards the 

 5'-^r<2Ci';?eOf the old Geography, then, the Edge of it bordered, 

 in all Probability, upon the mountainous Diftriot of the lower 

 Thehais. It may therefore be further prefumed, that the 

 Ifraelttes did not take the lower, but the upper Road, which 

 lyeth, for about half the Way, intirely difengaged from Moun- 

 tains : inafmuch as the Ifraelttes^ upon their removing from 

 the Edge of the Wildernefs, are ordered to turn ' (from the 

 Courfe, as we may fuppofe, of their former Marches) and to 

 encamp ^^/or^- Pihahhiroth, {Ex. ΐφ. x.) which, as we may con- 

 jeolure, muft confequently lye to the right Hand of the Wil- 

 dernefs oiEtham. Whereas had they continued their Marches 

 all along, through the Mountains o^Egjypt, in one and the fame 

 Road, both thefe Geographical Circumftances will be diffi- 

 cult to account for. The fecond Station therefore may be fixed 

 about fifty Miles from Kairo, at the Breach which I have men- 

 tioned : theNorthern, or nigher Range of Mountains, as I have 

 called it, continuing afterwards, without any Interruption, to 

 the Banks of the Red Sea, a little to the Southward of Suez. 



That the Ifraelttes had travelled hitherto in an open Coun- The vaUtyie- 

 try,(the fameWay perhaps which their Forefathers took in com-'andv^'M^- 

 ing mto Egypt,) appears to be further illuftrated from this Cir- "'^''" 

 cumftance, that, immediately upon their being ordered to re- 

 move from the Edge of the Wildernefs, and to encamp before 

 Tihahhiroth ; it followeth, that then Tharaoh ihould fay, tbej 

 are tnt angled in the Land, the Wildernefs (betwixt the Moun- 

 tains of Moc-catte 2Lna Suez,) have fiut them in. {Εχ.\δ^. g.) 

 In thefe Circumftances indeed, the Egyptians might very well 

 imagine that the Ifraelttes had no Way to efcape ; inafmuch as 

 the Mountains of Moc-catte would deny them a FalTage to the 

 Southward, as thofe in the Neighbourhood of Suez would be 

 a Barrier, to the Northward, towards the Land of the Thi- 

 liftines-, the Red Sea was before them to the Eaft, whilft 



I And. they dep.ntcdfrom Succoth and pitched i« Etham, which is in the Edge of the Wil- 

 dernei's. Mitub. 33. 6. Exod. 13.20. 2 They went three Days Journey in the Wildernefs of 

 Elham and pitched in Marah. Νη?»/». 33. 8. ς Mam^, r λαίν Ι^Λ)α-^άν, ■ύπζ,'^ίύσαί i'πιJ'ιωξHγ <ii( 

 hiyj-Pi'ivi, -ώχι \u-^bjj H^ ίούτί^Μίΐί ^λιγηΐν iJiit ^ τ ψ[Μ)ΐ iii'im-n. Clem. /ilex. Strom, p. 417. 

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