2H RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



done by the Bedouins, who avail themselves of the low 

 tide to cross the Eed Sea near Suez. 



" The generals of Pharaoh, like those of Said Pasha, 

 were unaware of the existence of these fords. 



" Chap. 14, v. 2. < Speak unto the children of 

 Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, 

 between Magdol and the sea, over against Baalsephon : 

 before it shall ye encamp in the sea.' 



"This place is, of a truth, amid the site of the old 

 lagoons of the Eed Sea, the level of which is below 

 that of the sea, and which will become lagoons again 

 when the maritime canal is open. The Israelites, 

 favoured by the tempest which the Bible describes, 

 will have crossed at night, when the tide was low, 

 across the low-lying tract of land between the basin of 

 Lake Timsah and that of the Bitter Lakes, between 

 the long sandbanks which by moonlight would have 

 looked like white walls, and the next morning, the 

 wind having gone down, the Egyptian troops went in 

 pursuit of the Hebrews, and were overwhelmed by 

 the floods or engulfed in the quicksands of the valley. 



" Chap. 15, v. 22. ' So Moses brought Israel out 

 of the Eed Sea, and they went out into the wilderness 

 of Shur ; and they went three days in the wilderness, 

 and found no water.' 



" V. 23. ' And when they came to Marah, they could 

 not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter.' 



" In the desert of Shur (the desert of Syria, the other 

 side of the Timsah and the Bitter Lakes) is a spring 



