in Arabia Petrxa ^c. 54.0 



which is the \Jam Suph a 'C^ cd^] The JVeedy Sea, in the Scri- 

 ptures, the Gulph of Heroopolis in the Greek and Latin Geo- 

 graphy, and the weftern Arm, as the y^rabian Geographers 

 call it, of the Sea o^Kolzum ', lyeth nearly North and South ; in 

 a Pofition very proper to be traverfed by that ftrong Eajl Wind 

 which was fent to divide it. Ex. 14. i\. The Divifion that was 

 thus made in the Channel, the making the Waters of it to (land 

 on a Heap (Pf. 78, 13.) their being a Wall to the Ifraelites on 

 the right Hand and on the leftj (Ex. 14. xi.) befides the Di- 

 ftance of at leaft twenty Miles, that this FafTage lyeth below 

 the Extremity of the Gulph, are Circumftances which fufficient- 

 ly vouch for the Miraculoufnefs of it, and no lefs contradict all 

 fuch idle Suppofitions as pretend to account for it, from the 

 Nature and Quality of Tides, or from any fuch extraordinary 

 Recefs of the Sea, as it feems to have been too raflily compared 

 to by Jofephus\ 



In travelHng from Sdur towards Mount Sinai, we come into^r „ . . 



^ ^ Ttoe Dejert of 



theDefert, as it is ftill called, of Mar ab, where the Ifraelites ^^^'^^, l'' 



^ Corondel. 



met with thofe bitter Waters, or Waters of Marah, (Er.15-.13.) 

 And as thisCircumftance did not happen, 'till after they had 

 wandred three "Days in the Wildernefs, we may probably fix 

 it at Corondel, where there is a fmall Rill of Water, which, un- 

 lefs it be diluted by the Dews and Rains, ftill continues to be 

 brackifh. Near this Place, the Sea forms itfelf into a large 

 Bay, called Berk el Corondel\ which is remarkable for a ftrong 

 Current, that fets into it, from the Northward. The Arabs 

 preferve a Tradition, that a numerous Hoft was formerly drown- 

 ed at this Place, occaiioned, no doubt, by what we are informed 

 ofEv. 14.. 30. that the Ifraelites faw the Egyptians dead upon 

 the Sea Shore. 



I Sues vulgo not) hihet ylbulfeda, fed e][is. loco Alkplzum : videntur tamen duo loca di- 

 ftincla : nam nofter Kalkjtjhandi mox port Sues poa'it Alkolzum ad meridiem ejufdem Sues in 

 litore Egyptiaco .- at vero Mekrifi expreffe ait yilkplz.um efle dirutum & loco ejus hodie Sues 

 elle. v. C. yoh. Gagn. Not. in Abulf. Geogr. Ad oram extimam brachij orientalis maris 

 Alkolz-um fita diAilab & ad oram extimam brachij occidentalis fuitUrbs/^//{o/z.H»;;utriurque' 

 Latitudines ferme exdcm funt. Vid. ^^«//. Defcript. maris yilkplzum. **Haud procul ab 

 AlkpUmneA locus in mari ubi demerfus fuit Faraone. Id. Alkolz.um, or Kolzum without the 

 Article, (eemsto have fome Affinity with Clyfma, another Name that this Gulph was former- 

 ly known by. Thus Plnloftorgius 1. 3. cap. vi. H p: EfuSfi SH ^AeTyoi' (mKvyoi^it, ti( J)io mh iin. 



tny TO na;j.phiov ■mhayQf-, /^ l^h a,»^yiy Jit 'iyjisiy, mtfi^v ? A' oUtZ n^ytO^m w Hsfow/ fiytnoyiuy tS ^'S 3tAi- 

 trayr®'. Jof, Anciq. 1, z, cap. 7. 3 Vid. Nor. i. p. 348. 



T 1 1 1 There 



