4 The Bp of ClogherV Obj eel ions confidered. 



Your Lordfhip (p. ^97.) prefers the Situation affignd by Dr. 

 Tocock for Elim to that which is ajjignd by Shaw. For 

 with Regard to Dr. Shaw you obferve, in the firft Place, that 

 the Force of his .Argument depends chief/ on the Number of 

 Wells. But this is reprefented too much to my Difadvantage ; 

 inafmuch as I have produced other Arguments, of equal Force, 

 in Support of my Hypothefs ; which fhould have been Hkewife 

 taken Notice of and confuted, before you concluded fo ftrongly 

 againft me. For the Scriptures inftruft us (and we have no 

 other Guide) that at Elim there were twelve IVells of Water 

 and Seventy Talm Trees, and that the Defert of Sin lay be- 

 twixt Elim and Sinai ; all which Circumftances have been 

 proved to agree with Hamam Moufa (i.e. the Baths of Mofes) 

 and not at all with Corondel\ where I do not find there are 

 any Wells, properly fo called, or fo much as one Palm Tree 

 bearing Fruit. Whereas at Hamam Moufa there are nine 

 of the twelve Wells ftill remaining, fome of which are of a 

 confiderable Depth : The Seventy Palm Trees have increafed 

 themfelves into a large fruitful Grove, which fupplies Mount 

 Sinai and all the Neighbourhood with Fruit and Arrack ex- 

 traded from it; betwixt this Plantation likewife and Mount 

 Sinai is the Defert of Sin. All this appear d to me to be a 

 Demonftration of what I undertook to prove, 'till it was di- 

 fputed by your Lordfhip. Befides ; the Defert o^ Sin, which 

 I lay lb much Strefs upon, is not the fame with the Defert of 

 Zin or liade/b or Tar an, as you have aiferted (p. 199 &c.) 

 and which might lead you into this Difpute ; It is a quite dif- 

 ferent Name as well as Place. For the Defert of Zin, the 

 fame with Kadefi and Taran is always written in the Original 

 Text (iv) with a Tzade\ whereas the Defert of Sin, which is 

 faid to lie betwixt £"/i»? and Sinai is wrote (ro) with a Samech: 

 which Orthography likewife, how little Regard foever is paid 

 to it by the LXXII, is carefully preferved in the Englifh, as 

 well as in other Verlions. Neither have I called the latter 

 the Defert oi Zin, {Trav. p. 35"0.) as I am faid to do, by your 

 Lordfhip. The Defert of Sin then muft be a particular De- 

 fert, diftindt from the Defert of Zin ; and will continue there- 

 fore to be a Handing and inconteftable Evidence, that Elim 

 muft have been fituated at Hamam Moufa, where I have fixed 

 it, and where we find thefe Palm Trees and Wells of Water ; 



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