^^^6 Geographical Ohfervations 



Tharaoh clofed up the Valley behind them with his Chariots 

 and Horfemen. This Valley ends, at the Sea, in a fmall Bay^ 

 made by the Eaftern Extremities of the Mountains I have 

 defcribed: and is called {Tiah [i<v>] Benilfrael) The Road of 

 the Ifraelites, (from a Tradition, kept up by the Arahs to this 

 Day, of their having pafled through it;) and Baideah [^^-.j-^ ' 

 perhaps] from the new and unheard oi Miracle that was wrought 

 near it, by dividing the Red Sea and deftroying therein Tha- 

 raoh, his Chariots and his Horfemen. 

 Pihahhiroth. The third notable Encampment then of the Ifraelites, was 

 at this Bay. It was to be before [m"Tnn»-)] Pihahhiroth, he- 

 twixt yW^dioX and the Sea, over again ft [ri£vb;;3] Baal-tzephon. 

 Ex. 14. X. and in Numb. 33. 7- it was to he before JMigdol ; 

 where the Word ['jsb] Liphne being applyed alike to them 

 both, may fignify no more than that they pitched within Sight 

 of, or at a fmall Diftance from either the one or the other of 

 Baai-tze- them. Now whether Baal-tzephon may have Relation to the 

 ^ °"' northern ^ Situation of the Place itfelf, or to fome Watch Tower 

 or Idol Temple that was erected upon it ; we may, in all Proba- 

 bility, take it for the eaftern Extremity of the Mountains of 

 Suez, the moft confpicuous of thefe Deferts, which commands 

 the View of a great Part of the Lower Thehais, as well as of 

 the Wildernefs that reaches towards the Land of the Thili/iines. 

 Migdoi. Migdol, I fuppofe, lay to the South, as Baal-tzephon did to 

 the North of this Station. For the Marches of the Ifraelites, 

 from the Edge of the Wildernefs, being to the Seaward, i e. to- 

 wards the S. E their Encampments betwixt Migdol and the 

 Sea, or before Migdol, as it is otherwife noted, could not well 

 have another Situation. 

 Pihahhiroth, Tihahhiroth, or Hhiroth rather, may have a more general 

 "o/iMroL Signification, denoting the Valley, or that whole Space of 

 Ground, which extended itfelf from the Edge of the Wilder- 

 nefs to the Red Sea. For that particular Part only of this 



I xitj-i {'^ '^ £<>■> novas & mirabilis rei conditor J Cafus novus & inauditus. Gol. 

 a pSi' is rendred the Nu>-f/», Exod.2(5.20. Jojh.%. ii. and in other Places of Scripture. 

 Accordingly Baal-tz.epbon may be interpreted the Gtd or Idol ofthcNorth, in Contradillindion 

 perhaps to others of the Lower Thebais, whofe Places ofWorfliip were to the S. or E. If 

 Tzepbon be related to DSJi,' to fpy out or obferve, then Baal-tz,ephon will probably fignify the 

 God of the Watch Tower or the Guardian God, fuch as was rhe Hermes or Terininus of the 

 Romans, the Ejofof eso? of the Greeks &c. The Worjhipp'mg upon Mountains is mentioned 

 I tiings 14. 23. jfer. z. 20. &c. The Perfians worshipped, ^ -m i-^s^t^rtnA 7^ ojeai- ha^oA. 

 ihTi!. Herod, CI. 5. 131. Hebraice eft. Dominus Specula, quod oftendit loca ilia edita fuifle 

 & praerupta. Metwch. in locum. Vid. Seld. de D. Sjr. Cap. 3. Synt. i. 



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