204 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



" We follow the bed of a torrent which leads us to 

 the gorge where we intend to make our collection of 

 minerals, and we get together specimens of marble, 

 calcareous marl, clay, &c., which we carry back with us 

 to Suez, where M. Costa takes us to see the house in 

 which Bonaparte lodged. The present owner, born in 

 the same year, has commemorated the visit by deco- 

 rating his salon with drawings of all the great victories 

 gained during the First Empire." 



" December 29, 1854. 



" Early in the morning we go by steamer to the 

 extremity of the Bay of Suez, to the shore where 

 terminates the valley which begins at Cairo. M. 

 Costa accompanies us, and he has written to his 

 father at the Fountains of Moses to say that we shall 

 dine and sleep there on our way back, returning the 

 next day by road to Suez. 



" The first part of our voyage went off very well, 

 and at eleven o'clock we landed at the foot of the lofty 

 mountain of Gene'be', situated at the extreme left of 

 a broad bay of which the Attaka formed the extreme 

 right. Opposite to us is the valley wrongly called 

 that of Moses or of the going astray, for the Hebrews 

 never passed that way. It is easy to follow on the 

 map, between Lake Timsah and the basin of the Bitter 

 Lakes, covered at that time by the Eed Sea, the march 

 of the Jews when they escaped with Moses from the 

 army of Pharaoh, the very places having, as Linant 



