100 Of the Pafiage of the Ifraelites 



The Tfra- 0116, to thc Eaft, through the Red Sea. But of this, neither 

 though' the the E^ypians nor the Ifraelites can be imagined to have enter- 

 ^fduu" ^^tained the leaft Thought or Apprehenfion, at that Time. 



3. Another Reafottj in Defence of what I have alferted, is 

 This ; that the Valley I have mentioned, ftill continues to be 

 called Baideah, or Miraculous , and Tiah heni Ifrael ', or the 

 Road of the Ifraelites. Tra'V. p. 34.6. The Mountain likewife, 

 tvhich I have taken for Baalzephon, is called at prefent Jihhel 

 jittaclzah or the Mountain ofVeliverance : {Trav. p. 348.) all 

 of them Names, that could never have been given or impofed 

 upon the neighbouring Inhabitants at firft, or preferved by 

 them afterwards, without fome faithful Tradition, that fuch 

 Places had once been the Scene of thefe Actions. 



4. If the Paflage of the Ifraelites had been fo near the Ex- 

 tremity of the Red Sea, as this Author places it, it may be 

 prefumed, that the very Encampments of/£r hundred thoujand 

 Men, hefides Children, and a mixed Multitude, would have 

 fpread themfelves, even to the other Side of this narrow 

 Ifthmtts ; and thereby made the Interpofition of Providence 

 lefs, or not at all, neceflary. Becaufe there could not have 

 been Room, in this Situation, for the Waters to have flood on 

 a Heap, or to have heen a Wall unto them on the left Hand^ 

 after it was divided. This moreover would not have been a 

 Divilion, but a Recefs only of the Water to the Southward. 

 Tharoah likewife by overtaking them, as they were encamped, 

 in this open Situation, by the Sea, would have eaiily furround- 

 ed them on all Sides. Whereas the contrary feems to be im- 



I After I had compofed thefe Sheets, the Rev'', and ingenious Mr. Cojlard, obliged me 

 with a Sight of the Chrjfanthine Map, as it has been called, of Egypt, which is projected in 

 a large Scale, with the Names of Places, in Greek^znd Arabick^ In this, the Tiah bent 

 Ifrael, (Trav. p. 345.) which is likewife the Name in Abulfeda, hTericl^benl Ifrael, Words 

 of the fame Force: which Tiah or Terick., lyes all the Way, in this Map, through two 

 Ranges of Mountains, from Va^iavs ( corruptly given for Va^uKm or P*,u':ixrHc, Ex. 12. ^7. 

 Numb. 33. 3. ) to the Red Sea. The Author of The Defcription of the Eajf, as far at leaft as 

 I underltand his /iirornra <if/(;rz/)f;(?«fi &c. gives little Credit to this Map. Hac charta [Izyi 

 he, Dijfert. Geogr. p. 286.) defcripta eft fign'is tarn Arab'u'is qtiam Grscis, in tifum {ut titiilm pra 

 fe fert) Chryfanthi Patriarch A Hierofoljmitani anno Domini 1722. Delineator [qutfquis fuerit iUe) 

 videtur fe totum compofuife ad librorum defcriptiones, non octdorumfidetn in locis perluftrandis acutm: 

 inde adeo cautius iUins vejiigiis inhsrendum cenfui. Whereas I muft beg Leave to differ from 

 this Gentleman, in taking it to be a valuable Chart, and which deferves well to be publi/hed. 

 Neither does it appear from the Title, as is here pretended, that it was of no older Date 

 than 1722. becaufe nBPirPA*H AirTHTOT &c. nroso-EPOMENH TXi &c. XPT2AN0X1 &c. 

 as the Title runs, may denote nothing more than that this particular Copy, ("not the Ori- 

 ginal,) was {jat}<rpiest^») offered, or (in our StileJ dedicated to, and not properly made for 

 Chrj/fanthus &c. in fuch a Year. go* I have inferted, along with the other Maps, an Ex- 

 tract from this, N'. iii. (in a much fmaller Scale,) as far as it relates to this Controverfy. 



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