in Arabia Petrsea &c. '^y^ 



been formerly lb many Fountains. It likewife may be further 

 obferved, that Art or Chance could by no means be concerned 

 in the Contrivance. For every Circumftance points out to us 

 a Miracle, and, in the fame Manner with the Rent in the 

 Rock of Mount Cahary at Jeruj'alem, never fails to produce a 

 religious Surprize in all who fee it. 



The Monks flievv us feveral other remarkable Places round f;'^ rc^arka-^ 



hie Places 



about this Mountain; as where Aaron % Calf was molten, Ex.z'!"^f'''^ 

 31.4. (but the Head only is reprefented and that very rudely)'^"'- 

 where the Tfraelites danced at the Confecration of it, £"x 5 2.1 9. 

 where Corah and his Company were fwallowed up, iV/w/.i^.'?!. 

 where Elias hid himfelf when he fled {r:o\\-\Jezehel, r Kings 8. 9. 

 But the Hiftory of thefe and other Places is attended with fo 

 many Monkifi Tales, that it would be too tedious to 

 recite them. 



From Mount Sinai, the Ifraelites dire6led their Marches, '^^^^^''^ '^ 

 Northward, towards the Land of Canaan. The next remark- 

 able Stations therefore were in the Defert of Taran, which 

 feems not to have commenced, 'till after they departed from 

 Hazeroth, three Stations from Sinai, Numh. ii. 16. Now as 

 Tradition hath preferved to us the Names of Shur, Marah, 

 and Sin, fo we have alfo That of Tar an, which we enter at 

 about the half way betwixt Sinai and Corondel, in travelling, ?"^''^ "-^ 

 through the Midland Road, along the Defiles of What were 

 probably the Black Mountains of Ttolemy \ In one Part of It, 

 ten Leagues to the Northward of Tor, there are feveral Ruins^ 

 particularly of a Greek Convent, (called the Convent of P^r/^;?) 

 which was not long ago abandoned,byReafonof the continual 

 Infults which they fufFered from the Arabs. Here likewife we 

 fhould look for theCity of thatName,though,according to theCir- 

 cumitances of it's Situation, as they are laid down by Ttolemy ' 

 Tor^ a fmall maritime Village, with a Caftle hard by it, fhould 

 rather be the Place. 



From the Wildernels of Taran, Mofes fent a Man out o/'Kadeni Bar- 

 cuery Trihe, to Jpy out the Land of Canaan, Numb. 13. g. who 

 returned to him, a.fter forty T>ays, unto the fame IVilderneJs, 



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