104 Elim not at Corondel, 



this Hypothefis, that the more it is confidered, the more^ I 

 prefume, it will appear to be impradlicable '. 

 cS/^bSt At Corondel\ I placed Marah, (Trav. p. 349.) which is 

 near Tor. ^j^Q^t the Diftattce of three fuch Days Journeys, as the Ifraelites 

 may be fuppofed to have made, from Sedur : where alfo I found 

 the little Water, there is, unpalatable ; as that Q>i Marah is re- 

 corded to have been. Here the Author of the 'Dejcriptwn of 

 the Eaft, (p. IT^^- ) places Elim ; (and for no other Reafon, 

 than) hecaufe if Elim was near Tor, and confequently alma ft 

 within the View of the Sea, it would hardly haiie heen [aid, 

 that they went afterwards {Numb. 1,1. 10.) and encamped at 

 the Red Sea. But this furely could be no dired Confequence ; 

 becaufe encamping almoft within Sight, or at half a Leagues 

 Diftance from Tor, or, as he elfewhere exprefles it, from the 

 Red Sea ; and encamping afterwards at or upon fome other 

 Part of the Shore of the Red Sea, are without doubt very- 

 compatible. For the Scriptures are filent as to the Diftance " 

 or particular Place; and in Exodus xvi. this Station is intirely 

 omitted ; the Defert of Sin being recorded (v. i.) immediate- 

 ly after E/iw. Now as the Defert of »S/« is defcribed {ibid.) to 

 lye betwixt Elim and Sinai, (which it may, with great Pro- 

 priety, be faid to do, provided Elim is near Tor where I have 

 placed it,) their encamping firft upon the Maritime, and after- 

 wards upon the more Inland Part of the fame Defert, will ftill 

 be very confiftent with the Scripture Account \ 



To remove Elim therefore, upon this Account, fo far to the 

 Northward, as Corondel, is certainly very particular, and, 

 feemingly, without the leaft Foundation. For no Station could 

 have been better or more circumftantially marked out than 

 this ; or which indeed has preferved greater Tokens of the 

 Circumftances of it's ancient Situation. For we are told, Ex. 

 15-. x7. and Numb. 33.9. that 2XElim there were twehe Wells 



1 60*^7 Uolqng over the ExtraB from this Author's Map, N°. iv. p. i. it will be eafily per- 

 ceived, wherein we differ, with Regard to the particular Place of this Pajfage, and of the refpe^ive 

 Encampments Ukewife of the Ilraelites, before they pafed over ; the fingle prickt Lines denoting, 

 all along, the Situation of the Sea Coajl and of the adjacent Mountains &c. according to my Ob- 

 fervations ; as the double prickt Lines and the re/1 of it, are laid down according to his. 



2 See the refpedive Situations of Corondel and the Defert of Sin, as they are laid down 

 in the Map. Trav. p. 336. and likewife in the abridged Map, N". 11. of this Supplement, 

 fronting p. I. 



J In the Chryfanthine Map, Marah is placed at Corondel ; and Elhn at Tor, exadly as I 

 have placed them. 



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