:j^8 Geographical Ohfervattons 



of the Mountain, which hath been fuppofed to hQBaal-tzephon, 

 is called (^-'^^^ Jihhel ^t-tachah) The Mountain of Delherance^ 

 even to this Day. 

 r/ f ifraeiites There are likewife other Circumftances to induce us to be- 

 p7.f .S/rJieve that the Ifraelites took their Departure from the Valley 

 Sth.""^! have defcribed, in their PalTage through the Red Sea. For 

 they could not have done it any further to the Northward ; 

 becaufe, as this muft have been on the other Side of the Moun- 

 tains of ^i^-^jwhere theWildernefs,in thatDireftion, is,for a great 

 Way, plain and level, fo they could not have been there, either 

 Jhut in or intangled. Neither could it have been attempted 

 any further to the Southward; inafmuch as, upon this Suppo- 

 fition, (beiides the infuperable Difficulties, the Ifraelites would 

 have met with, in climbing over Precipices, and the Egyptians, 

 in purfuing them) the Defert oi Arahia that lyeth over againft 

 this Part of Egfpt, would not have been Shur, where the If- 

 raelites are faid to have landed, Ex. ly. xi. but Mar ah, which 

 lay beyond it to the South. Corondel, I prefume, made the 

 Southern Portion of the Defert o^Marah ; from whence to the 

 Port of Tor, the Shore, which hitherto was low and fandy, 

 begins now to be rocky and mountainous, whilft that ofEg^pf 

 is ftill more imprafticable , and neither of them afford any 

 convenient Place, either for the Departure or the Landing of 

 a Multitude. Moreover, from Corondel " to Tor, the Channel 

 is ten or twelve Leagues broad, too great a Space certainly for 

 the Ifraelites, in the Manner at lealt they were encumbred, to 

 traverfe in one Night. And, at Tor, the Arahian Shore begins 

 to wind itfelf, (round what we may fuppofe to be Ttolemfs 

 Promontory of Tar an) towards the Gulph of Eloth ; at the 

 fame Time the Egyptian retires fo far to the S. W. that it can 

 fcarce be perceived. The IJraelites therefore could neither 

 have landed at Corondel or Tor, according to the Conjeftures of 

 feveral Authors. 

 The Defert of 0\QT 2ig2im^ Jihhel At'tachah, at ten Miles Diflance, is the 

 ur. Y^Q^^^^ j^g jt ig called, ofSdur, the fame with Shur, Ex. ly. ii. 

 where the Ifraelites landed, after they had paflTed through the 

 interjacent Gulph of the Red Sea. The Situation of this Gulph, 



I Ebn Said (Cod. MS. Seld.) makes the Sea at Corondel to be feventy Miles over, whereas 

 it is little more than fo many Furlongs. " Amplitudo maris AlkoUmi ad locum diftum 

 Berkatel Corondel eH circiterfeptuagintaMilliariorum". Vid. Vol. iii. Geogr. Vet. Mm. 



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