in Arabia Petr^ea ^c. ^75- 



was perhaps the firft and the proper PoiTefTion of the Children 

 oi Efau, before they extended then* Conquefts further towards 

 Tetra,) could not lye to the Northward οΐ Kadefj, becaufc then, 

 theh'Journies would not have been towards the Red Sea, but 

 the Land of Canaan, which was exprefsly forbidden. This 

 Situation of it likewife is further confirmed, by what we read 

 {Gen 14.) ΟΪ Chedorlaomer and the Kings that were li/'ithh'un, 

 how they /mote the Horites in their Mount Seir unto Elparan, 

 and how they returned from thence to Kadefj. Mount Seir 

 then, as well as BIparan, muft lye to the S. or S. W, οι Kadefj. 

 If then we could adjuft the true Pofition of Eloth, we iliould 

 gain one confiderable Point towards the better laying down of 

 this mountainous Trad, where x\\q Ifraelites vλ'and red fo many 

 Years. 



Now there is an univerilu Confent among Geographers, that^'^-'^ '""^ 

 [hSt] Eloth, the fime with Elana, Adah, or Aelana, as 'it^'s^rly ,.^ tL• 

 is differently wrote by them, was fituated upon the Northern '«^^'• 

 Extremity of the Gulph of the fame Name '. Ttolemy ' indeed 

 placeth it 45•'• to the Southward of Heroopolis, and near 9°. to 

 the Eaftward : whereas Abulfeda\ whofe Authority, I pre- 

 fume, may be greatly regarded in this Particular, maketh the 

 Extremities of the two Gulphs to lye nearly in the fame Parallel, 

 though he is altogether filent as to the Diftance between them. 

 1 have been often informed by the Mahometan Pilgrims, who, 

 in their Way to Mecca, pais by them both, that their Marches 

 are all the Way in an Eaftern Direction from Kairo, 'till they 

 arrive at ( Callah Accaba) The Garrifon, fituated, below the 

 Mountains οϊ Ace aha, upon the utmoft Point of the Red Sea. 

 Here they begin to travel direolly towards Mecca, which thev 

 had hitherto kept upon their right Hands, having made in all 

 from Adjeroute , ten Miles to the N.N.W. οϊ Suez, to this 

 Garrifon, a Journey of feventy Hours- But as this whole Tradl 

 is very Mountainous, the Road muft confequently be attended 

 with a great Variety of Windings and Turnings, which would 

 hinder them from making any greater Progrefs than at the Rate 

 of about half a League an Hour. Eloth then, (perhaps the.^^jJS"'" 



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 μύγω τί ApciS/« κόλτΓϋ Kn^fim. Strab. \.\6. p.lI02. 2 Η ΕλΛν« η^,η ^ μυ'^ν xnaV» η Όμαιημ* «έλτ», 



imx« /y.oiprti ξί iLy »θ ί. Vid. ΡιοΙ. uc fupra&Not.^. p 542• 3 Vid. Not. i. p. 349. 



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