hut near Tor. loj' 



of Water y and three/core and ten Talm Trees, and that they 

 lencamped or pitched there hy the Waters. Now at Corondel, 

 we do not findj (as far as I faw or could learn,) the Traces of 

 any Wells at all ; neither is there any Grove or Colledlion of 

 Palm Trees. Whereas, in the Neighbourhood of Tor, there is a 

 regular and delightful Plantation of Palm Trees ; equal to any 

 in the ( Jiridde ) Date Country of the Tunifeens. For the 

 three/core and ten have, in Procefs of Time, improved them- 

 felves into more than two thoufand. The Wells, which are 

 ranged along a narrow Vale, near the Grove, are indeed a 

 little diminiflied in their Numbers ; yet even thofe nine of them 

 that remain to this Day, (as fo many are no where found toge- 

 ther, in any other Part of Arahia, fo they) are fufficient to 

 atteft for the Poflibility of their having been once a greater 

 Number. This Author feems to have been acquainted with 

 one Well ' only, which produced good Water ; whereas the 

 Water of thofe I faw was very unpalatable, and of a bad Di- 

 '^geftion. If there was likewife one Well only, it feems to be 

 an Impropriety in the facred Hiftorian to fay, that they pitched 

 there (can Sy) hy the Waters', which generally imply es a greater 

 Number or Colle6lion of them. 



Though the Situation oi Kadefi or Kadefi Barnea, which j^^f-^'^JJ; 

 is the fame, (Trav. p. 3 74.) may not be fo wellcircumftantiated J^y^/"^*^"* 

 as Eliniy yet the Diftance of it from Horeh 4flt Sinai, is too 

 particularly laid down in Scripture, to give the leaft Authority 

 or Encouragement for fixing it, as this Author has done ', at 

 eight Hours Diftance only from that Mountain. 



I. Becaufe in Deiit. i. x. it is exprefsly faid, that there are 

 eleven Days Journey from Horeh hy the Way (J^"^) of Mount 

 Seir to Kadeflj Barnea : which, from the Context, cannot be 

 otherwife underftood than of marching along the dire6t Road, 

 For Mofes hereby intimates to the Ifraelites, how foon they 

 might have arrived upon the Borders of the Land ofTrotnife, 

 if they had not been a ftubborn and a rebellious People. 

 Whereas the Number of their Stations or Journeys betwixt 



1 A League N. of Tor is a Well of good Water, and all about it are a great Number 

 of Date Trees. Vol. I. p. 141. 



2 Kadef} is fuppofed (l/y himfelf altne, at no Authorities are quoted j) to be eight Hours N. 

 or N. W. of Mount S'tnaii and to this Part the Spies returned from viewing the Land. 

 Vol. I. p. IJ7- 



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