212 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



"V. 8. ( Now there arose up a new king over 

 Egypt, which knew not Joseph.' 



"V. 11. ' Therefore they did set over them task- 

 masters to afflict them with their burdens. And 

 they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and 

 Barneses.' 



" Chap. 8, v. 22. The Plague of Flies.' And I 

 will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which 

 my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be 

 there.' 



" Chap. 9, v. 6. The Sixth Plague. The Plague of 

 Boils. < And all the cattle of Egypt died : but of the 

 cattle of the children of Israel died not one.' 



"V. 26. Seventh Plague. Ram and Hail. < Only 

 in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel 

 were, was there no hail.' 



" The inductions which I draw from these passages 

 in the Bible are that the land of Goshen, which will 

 be intersected by our subsidiary canal from the Nile, 

 will become at least as fertile as it was in ancient times, 

 and that its climate is most salubrious, seeing that in 

 our day, as in the time of Moses, the few tribes of 

 Arab shepherds who encamp there are generally 

 exempt from epidemics, despite their coming in 

 contact with the populations of Lower Egypt. 



"Chap. 12, v. 37. ' And the children of Israel 

 journeyed from Eameses to Succoth.' 



' ' Succoth in Hebrew means Tents. This place is now 

 called by the Arabs either Oum-Eiam (the Mother of 



