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Thefijutntyof The Fountains called ^in el Moufa are lukewarm and ful- 

 [f Am'Z phureous, boyling up three or four Inches above the Surface^ 

 Moufa. ^^ .^ ^^^^ ^^^^ agitated below by fome violent Heat. The 



Of the Foim- Fouutain^ two Leagues to the Weftward of Suez, where there 

 Suez."""^ are feveral large Troughs for the Convenience of watering 

 their Cattle, is brackiili; and therefore the Inhabitants of that 

 Village are obliged to drink of the y4in el Moufa, which lyeth, 

 at the fame Diftance, on the other Side of the Red Sea. The 

 Exchange indeed is not extraordinary, yet preferred by being 

 o///'f Ham- more wholefome. ThQW-2iiQ^% oi Hamma?n Tharaoune, near 

 mme. ^'^' Corondel , are excefTively hot, and fend off no fmall Quantity 

 of a fower, vitriolick Steam : our Condudlors affirming, at the 

 fame Time, with great Gravity and Serioufnefs , that they 

 would boyl an Egg in one Minute, and macerate it in the 

 next. But I had not an Opportunity of trying the Experi- 

 Of the Ham- ment. The Water of Hamman Moufa, among the Wells of 

 El'im, is moderately warm and fulphureous : but that of theWells 

 is brackifli, and of a crude Digeftion, creating thofe fcrophu- 

 lous Tumours, that Sallownefs of Complexion, and thofe Ob- 

 ftru6lions in the Bowels, which are too much complained of 

 oftheWaters\>^ thc luhabitauts of Tor, who drink them. The Waters of 

 "Ld plran.^ Corondcl, and thofe near Taran were lukewarm, and feemed 

 to be impregnated with a fmall Mixture both of Salt and Sul- 

 phur; though both of them, from being fituated in the midft 

 of Mountains , may have their original Taftes and Qualities 

 frequently foftned, efpecially in the Morning, by the plentiful 

 Dews, which are difcharged into them in the Night. 

 The shuation Thc bracklfli Waters of El'im and Suez, and the fulphureous 

 S^''^'""" Waters of Atn el Moufa, are fituated, upon level Ground, a 

 great Way removed from any Range of Mountains. Thofe 

 particularly of ^tn el Moufa, cherifh and refrefh the highefl 

 Fart of an extenlive Plain. The throwing of themfelves up 

 therefore in Jet deaux, will be a Circumftance the more extra- 

 ordinary ; and which perhaps is to be no otherwife accounted for, 

 than by deducing their Origine from the great Abyfs. But the 

 Fountain within the Convent of St. Catharine, That of the 

 Forty Martyrs, in the Plain of Rephidim, and another, which 

 we find in the Valley of Hehron, near the half Way from 

 thence to the Defert of Sin, are Sources of excellent Water; 

 which the Palate finds to be the more delicious, as it hath for 



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