in Arabia Petraea &c. 555- 



was perhaps the firft and the proper Pofleffion of the Children 

 oi Efau, before they extended their Conquefts further towards 

 Tetra,) could not lye to the Northward oi Kadejh, becaufe then, 

 their Journies would Aot have been towards the Red Sea, but 

 the Land of Canaan, which was exprefsly forbidden. This 

 Situation of it likewife is further confirmed, by what we read 

 {Gen 14.) of Cbedorlaomer and the Kings that were with him, 

 how they fmote the Horites in their Mount Seir unto Elparan, 

 and how they returned from thence to Kadeflj. Mount Seir 

 then, as well as Elparan, muft lye to the S. or S. W. oiKadeJlj. 

 If then we could adjuft the true Pofition of Eloth, we fliould 

 gain one confiderable Point towards the better laying down of 

 this mountainous Tract, where the Ifraelites wand red fo many 

 Years. 



Now there is an univerfal Confent amons Geographers, that ^'^^^'^ "'''^ 



r'j / t r • T-'j or J Heroopolis 



\rh'v\ Eloth, the fame with Elana, Allah, or Aelana. as it '^^'"■'> '» ^'^» 

 is differently wrote by them, was htuated upon the Northern '''^^• 

 Extremity of the Gulph of the fafne Name '. Ttolemy ' indeed 

 placeth it 45-'. to the Southward of Heroopolis, and near 3°. to 

 the Eaftward : whereas Abulfeda\ whofe Authority, I pre- 

 fume, may be greatly regarded in this Particular, maketh the 

 Extremities of the two Gulphs to lye nearly in the fiimeParallel, 

 though he is altogether filent as to the Diftance between them. 

 I have bean often informed by the Mahometan Pilgrims, who, 

 in their Way to Mecca, pals by them both, that their Marches 

 are all the Way in an Eaftern Dire6lion from Kairo, 'till they 

 arrive at (Callah Accaha) TheGarriJon, htuated, below the 

 Mountains o{ Ace ah a, upon the utmoft Point of the Red Sea. 

 Here they begin to travel directly towards Mecca, which they 

 had hitherto kept upon their right Hands, having made in all, 

 from Adjeroute , ten Miles to the N.N.W. o^ Suez, to this 

 Garrifon, a journey of feventy Hours- But as this whole Tra^l 

 is very Mountainous, the Road muft confequently be attended 

 with a great Variety of Windings and Turnings, which would 

 hinder them from making any greater Progrefs than at the Rate 

 of about half a League an Hour. Eloth then, (perhaps the JlS.''""" 



fw')^a n fif<*='it mK'ith AHi^wv. Strab. l.i<5. p.1102. 2 H Ehiva, ii0.-7n r fxu-^y kh/j^m n cixafufji.6 x'of.Tx, 

 imx« M<"'p<'* ^ ^> "* '''• Vid. Prof, ut ftipra & Not. 3. p. 342. 3 Vid. Nor, i. p. 349. 



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