^go Thyfical Obfervations &c. 



Thesiunihyof The Fouiitains called Am el Monfa are lukewarm and ful- 

 'ofMn'ci phureous, boyling up three or four Inches above the Surface, 

 ^°"^'' as if they were agitated below by fome violent Heat. The 

 Of the Fom- Fountaiu, two Leagues to the Weftward of Suez, where there 

 Suez.''"" are feveral large Troughs for the Convenience of watering 

 their Cattle, is brackiilr, and therefore the Inhabitants of that 

 Village are obhged to drink of the ^//if el Mouja, w^hichlyeth, 

 at the fame Diftance, on the other Side of the Red Sea. The 

 Exchange indeed is not extraordinary, yet preferred by being 

 o/i^. Ham- more wholefome. The Waters oiHammam Tharaoune, near 

 ZnJ""^'" Corondel , are exceffively hot, and fend oif no fmall (^antity 

 of a fower, vitriolick Steam : our Conduftors affirming, at the 

 fame Time, with great Gravity and Serioufnefs , that they 

 would boyl an Egg in one Minute, and macerate it in the 

 next. But I had not an Opportunity of trying the Experi- 

 o/i/^.Ham-ment. The Water oi Hamman Moufa, among the Wells of 

 mam Moufa. β^^^^ -^ i-j-joderately wami and fulphureous : but that of theWells 

 is brackifh, and of a crude Digeftion, creating thofe fcrophu- 

 lous Tumours, that Sallownefs of Complexion, and thofe Ob- 

 ftrudions in the Bowels, which are too much complained of 

 ofthemtershy the Inhabitants of Tor, who drink them. The AVaters of 

 i</pa^n '' Corondel, and thofe near Taran were lukewarm, and feemed 

 to be impregnated with a fmall Mixture both of Salt and Sul- 

 phur ; though both of them, from being fituated in the midft 

 of Mountains , may have their original Taftes and Qualities 

 frequently foftned, efpecially in the Morning, by the plentiful 

 Dews, which are difcharged into them in the Night. 

 The Situation Thc brackifli Waters of Elim and Suez, and the fulphureous 

 i?//'^"''"' Waters of y4in el Moufa, are fituated, upon level Ground, a 

 great Way removed from any Range of Mountains. Thofe 

 particularly of Atn el Moiija, cheriih and refreili the higheft 

 Part of an extenfive Plain. The throwing of themfelves up 

 therefore in Jet deaux, will be a Circumftance the more extra- 

 ordinary ; and which perhaps is to be no otherwife accounted for, 

 than by deducing their Origine from the great Abyfs. But the 

 Fountain within the Convent of St. Catharine, That of the 

 Forty Martyrs, in the Plain of Rephidim, and another, which 

 we find in the Valley of Hebron, near the half Way from 

 thence to the Defert of Sin, are Sources of excellent Water; 

 which the Palate finds to be the more delicious, as it hath for 



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