in Arabia Petrica &c. ^f^ 



been formerly fo many Fountains. It likewiie may be further 

 obferved, that Art or Chance could by no means be concerned 

 in the Contrivance. For every Circumftance points out to us 

 a Miracle, and, in the fame Manner with the Rent in the 

 Rock of Mount Calvary at Jerufa/em, never fails to produce a 

 rehgious Surprize in all who fee it. 



The MonL• fliew us feveral other remarkable Places round J'^^ 'pj^'^^f" 

 about this Mountain; as where Aaron ^ Calf was molten, Ex. roiaid about 

 31.4. (but the Head only is reprefented and that very rudely) ί^'"'^• 

 where the Ifraelites danced at the Confecration of it, Ελ•. 52.19. 

 where Corah and his Company were fwallowed up, iV/^w.Ki.-^i. 

 where EUas hid himfelf when he fled iromjezebel, τ Kings 8. 9. 

 But the Hiftory of thefe and other Places is attended with fo 

 many Monkiflj Tales, that it would be too tedious to 

 recite them. 



From Mount Sinai, the Ifraelites direded their Marches, pf,,^/"' '^ 

 Northward, towards the Land of Canaan. The next remark- 

 able Stations therefore were in the Defert of Taran, which 

 feems not to have commenced, 'till after they departed from 

 Hazeroth, three Stations from Sinai, Numb. 11. 16. Now as 

 Tradition hath preferved to us the Names of Shur, Marah, 

 and Sin, fo we have alfo That οι Taran, which we enter at 

 about the half way betwixt Sinai and Corondel, in travelling, pf^^*^^^ '^ 

 through the Midland Road, along, the 7)efiles of What were 

 probably the Black Mountains of Ttolemy \ In one Part of It, 

 ten Leagues to the Northward of Tor, there are feveral Ruins, 

 particularlyof a G'ri'^^ Convent, (called the Convent of P^r^^;?) 

 which was not long ago abandoned, by Reafon of the continual 

 Infults which they fuffered from the Jlrahs. Here likewife we 

 ihould look for theCity of thatName,though,according to theCir- 

 cumftances of if s Situation, as they are laid down by Ttolemy " 

 Tor, a fmall maritime Village, with a Caftle hard by it, ihould 

 rather be the Place. 



From the Wilderneft of Taran, Mofes fent a Man out of^^^^^^ Bar- 

 e^ery Tribe, to Jpy out the Land of Canaan, Numb. 13. 3. i4/ho 

 returned to him, after forty Days, unto the fame Wildernefs, 



I To xj' Φ^ρά/ ixfceTiaai Ιτή^^ι μοΊ^α; ζΐ κη s 



i-Tti^n ^ Kj'x (Λ Φα,ξα Kcif^» μο'ίξΟί ξί r.u y« 



ΔίβτίίΐΌ 3 iv iZ ■χάξα., (Arab'td Petrxx) -m utixi'dp» ΜίλΛ^α. 2f» &5 <n, χ^τνί Φϊρα/ μ^/*^ ω< ^ liiu ΙκΛα'β)', 

 Koi &Β μΙ Sbntii rfJ" l^tai* «των ^ξβ τώβ a"/-'.'^ov, η η SAPAKHNH mif'mt. Ftolem. Gcogr. 1. y. 

 cap. 17. 2 Vid. Nor. ut tiipra. 



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