in Arabia Petriea ^c. ^^p 



which is the \Jam Suph s^d cd'] The Weedy Sea, in the Scri- 

 ptures, the Gulph of HeroopoUs in the Greek and Latin Geo- 

 graphy, and the weftern Arm, as the Arabian Geographers 

 call it, of the Sea QiKolziim \ lyeth nearly North and South ; in 

 a Pofition very proper to be traverfed by that flrong Εαβ Wind 

 ys\{iQh\\2iS fent to dh'tde it. Ex. ΐφ. ii. The Divifion that was 

 thus made in the Channel, the making iheJVaters of it to βαηά 

 on a Heap (Pf 78. ig.) their being a Wall to the Ifraelites on 

 the right Hand and on the left, (Ex. 1 4. 11. ) befides the Di- 

 ilance of at leaft twenty Miles, that this PaflTage lyeth below 

 the Extremity of the Gulph, are Circumftances which fufficient- 

 ly vouch for the Miraculoufnefs of it, and no lefs contradidl all 

 fuch idle Suppofitions as pretend to account for it, from the 

 Nature and Quality of Tides, or from any fuch extraordinary 

 Recefs of the Sea, as it feems to have been too raflily compared 

 to by Jofephus\ 



In travelling from Sdur towards Mount Si^^s-i, we come into^,^,^^ . , . 

 theDefert, as it is ftill called, οϊ Marah, where tht Ifraelites^^'^l^^^^^ 

 met with thofe hitter Waters, or Waters of Marah, {Ex.is.ri.) 

 And as thisCircumftance did not happen, 'till after they had 

 wandred three Days in the Wildernefs, we may probably fix 

 it at Corondel, where there is a fmall Rill of Water, which, un- 

 lefs it be diluted by the Dews and Rains, ftill continues to be 

 brackiili. Near this Place, the Sea forms itielf into a large 

 Bay, called Berk el Corondel', which is remarkable for a ftrong 

 Current, that fets into it, from the Northward. The u^rahs 

 preferve a Tradition, that a numerous Hoft was formerly drown- 

 ed at this Place, occafioned, no doubt, by what we are informed 

 οϊΕχ. I φ. go. that the Ifraelites fa74/ the Egyptians dead upon 

 the Sea Shore. 



I Sues\\A%o non hihct Abulfeaa, fed t]\x% \oco Alkolz.wn : videntur tamen duo loca di- 

 ftinrta : nam nofter ΚαΙΙ^αβιαπάι mox poft Sues ponit Alkplz.um ad meridiem ejufdem Sues in 

 Vnoxe Esjptiaco : at veto Mekrifi expreflTe aic yilkolz.um effe dirutum & loco ejushodie 5«^^ 

 elTe. V. C. Job. Gagn. Not. in Abulf. Geogr. Ad oram cxtimam brachij orientalis maris 

 Alkolz.um fita cii AiUh & ad oram extimam brachij occidentalis fuitUrbs/i/^o/;.«>«;utriiirque 

 Latitudines ferme esdcm funt. Vid. ^te//. Defcript. mzxh yllkolz.um. **Haud procul ab 

 Alkplz.um eft locus in mari ubi demerfus fuit Faraone. Id. AlkoUum, or Kolzum without the 

 Article, lecmsto have fome Affinity with Clyfma, another Name that this Gulph was former- 

 ly known by. Thus Philoflorg'tus 1. j. cap. vi. Η μ EpuSpi iJn crA«ssi' (Μηωνοι^ϊ\, fJi Λ'ο mh iin. 

 μίειζίΤίίΐ wK'jiif, li) li pC axtns ί-π' Αί^υ'Λ χωρ" Κλιί^τ*», )^3•' ο Tihdi-m vi Ιττάναμον φίζ^ν. Λ' « τήκαι κίμ ii 

 ϊσ^αχλι-ηκίν tfcAjyorjii 7β( A]yu^i>ii α^,ζργω ii \ίί^ον S'limfaici^mv τζϊΛ'. 2 ΘαΜμάζπ Λ' pttftJf 7iJ λί^κ το 



ik^vι Χ.ΛΤ ιιυΎομαπν, οτπ,ΤΈ Kcu <άΟ. τον hu^axSfm το/ ββίβΐλέα τ»? ΛίΛΧίΛ^ίβί χθίί και trs^w jtyov'oaiv ΰτη^ξκ• 

 <ην το 'ntfij-phi'iv 77ίλα>@', i^ 1^»\ι «fAny ίκ \γ^σιν, ■Mpi^r ? Α' οκίτί ι^τβλνπκ m niftroi- li)tuorlay τϊ St2 θιλί- 

 β-Μτ®'. Jof. Antiq. 1. 2. cap. 7. 3 Vid. Not. i. p. 348, 



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