through the Red Sea. lo^ 



Geographical Circumftances may be explained, as I prcfume, TWcir En- 

 in this Manner, viz. ibat the tncamprnents of the Ifraelites,i'etwixcHf- 

 not only took tip the (Pi Hahhiroth or) Mouth of the F'alley J^<,Z,\x' 

 hut even extended the?njehes to the very Skirts of thofe Tlaces, with the 

 that were called at that Time Migdol and Baalzephon; whe-^hcconl^, 

 ther they were Mountains y Villages or of whatever Sluality or 

 T)e nomination. Then it follows. Numb. gg. 8. and they de- 

 parted from before Tibahiroth, ( where we may fuppofe the 

 Centre or main Body of their Encampments lay,) and faffed 

 through the Midft of the Sea, into the Wilder nefs. 



Now, if the Encampments of the ^<^c/f/e' J, when the £^;/p- 

 tians came down upon them, had been betwixt ^djeroute and 

 Suez, (the Migdol and Baalzephon of the Scripture Account,) 

 and extended as far as Cleopatris, the Tihahiroth of this Au- 

 thor, to theEaft; they could have had little or no Relation 

 at all with the Red Sea. Neither could the Red Sea, as it lay, 

 in this Situation, to the right Hand or Southward of their En- 

 campments, have the leaft Concern in their Efcape. For the 

 Sea being divided, at Suez, (i. e. Baalzephon,) in this Souther- 

 ly (not, as it is recorded in Scripture, in an Eafterly) Dire6tion, 

 would have only conduced them into the Midft of the Chan- 

 nel, and not to the further Side of it. A Divifion of the Sea, 

 (as low, we will fuppofe it, 2l^ Ain Moufa^ would have been 

 of as little Confequence, from the very Situation, (according 

 to this Scheme,) of the Encampments of the Ifraelites and of the 

 Egyptians, who had already overtaken them. For it can hardly 

 be fuppofed, at thisConjunfture, that the Ifraelites could have 

 had either Room or even an Opportunity given them to file 

 off, along this mountainous Shore (as it is defcribed to be ' ) of 

 the Red Sea, without being greatly diftreffed, interrupted, and 

 all the way flanked, (to ufe an expreffive military Term,) by 

 Tharaoh\ Chariots and his Horfemen. And moreover, the 

 Red Sea, many Ages after this Event, is imagined to have 

 extended itfelf as far as Heroopolk or Adjeroute ; and thereby 

 muft have taken up the whole Site and Space of thefe Encamp- 

 ments. In fhort, there are fo many Difficulties which attend 



I There are high Hills all ^long the Weft Shore to the Port, (viz. over aga'tnft Ain MoufaJ 

 which is a League from Suez. Vol. I. p. 133. 



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