in Egypt, Arabia Petrsea ^c\ ']^s 



Neither is the Geography of Etham, the fecond StatioiijEiham ///^ 



ox^ ■> ^ ^ ■• Miles dijiant 



iiHich better circumftantiated : though if we may fuppofc it/'^<"» Rame- 



'^ . Ics to the 



to belong to the Wildernefs ' of the fame Name, which fpread^-^T?- 

 itfelf round thcHeroopo/i^anGul^h', and made afterwards the 

 Saracene of the old Geography, then, the Edge of it bordered, 

 in all Probability, upon the mountainous Diftridt of the lower 

 Thebais. It may therefore be further prefumed, that the 

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

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

 tains : inafmuch as the Ifraelites, 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 ^^/ore" Pihahhiroth, {Ex. 14. 1.) which, as we may con- 

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

 dernefs o^Etham. Whereas had they continued their Marches 

 all along, through the Mountains o^ Egypt, 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^^iro, 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 Ifraelites had travelled hitherto in an open Coun- The vaiuy be. 

 try,(the fameWay perhaps which their Forefathers took in com- TndWS- 

 ing mto Egypt,) appears to be further illuftrated from thisCir-™^ ' 

 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 fhould fay, thej 

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

 tains of Moc-catte 2Lnd Suez,) have Jlmt them in. (£1^.14. g.) 

 In thefe Circumftances indeed, the Egyptians might very well 

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

 the Mountains of Moc-catte would deny them a Paflage 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 departed from Succoth and pitched iHEtham, which is in the Edge of the Wil- 

 dernefs. Numb. 33. 6. Exod. 13. 20. 2 They went three Days Journey in the Wildernefs of 

 Etham and pitched in Marah. Numb. ^^. S. 3 Means, r hah l^etyayov, vzirc'^cvaas i'7riJ)eS^Hy lif 

 hiyjT^i^!') liuj ihi-^j i(ff!f ewTviMv isnMTtav oJiv, ?ii f (fyifMY lifimTv. Clem. /ilex. Strom, p. 417, 

 Edit. Pott. 



S f f f Tharaoh 



