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Ordnance Survey of Sinai, who with great detail have shown 

 that Jebel Musa, or ]\Ioses Mount, in the centre of the Sinaitic 

 Peninsula, fulfils in all its characteristics the conditions of the 

 narrative of the giving of the Law ; and that .Jebel Haroun 

 (Mount Hor), rising conspicuously above the numerous 

 ridges and prominences which bound the great valley of the 

 Arabah on the eastern side in the vicinity of Petra fulfils the 

 requirements connected with that portion of the narrative 

 recording the events of Aaron's death, and the resumption 

 of the journeyings after the lapse of forty years. Having 

 myself had the opportunity of corroborating, from personal 

 observation, many of these identifications, and comparing 

 the narrative with the features of the ground which are 

 indispensable to right understanding thereof, I am much 

 tempted to linger amongst these interesting spots, but as 

 time does not permit I must do so no longer ; and I pass on 

 from these general topics to others of a more special kind, 

 and I shall select five cases w^hicli seem to me of special 

 interest in this connection, namely: — 1. The inscriptions 

 on the Temple of Karnak ; 2. Tel-el-Hesi and Tel-el- 

 Amarna; 3. The Moabite Stone ; 4. The Siloam Inscription; 

 5. The Holy Rock under the dome of the Mosque of Omar. 



Some of these cases have already been brought before the 

 members of this Institute by Professors Sayce, Maspero and 

 others. On this account I have not thought it necessary to 

 do more than give a summary of the results necessary to the 

 argument in question. Others are to be found recorded with 

 more or less fulness in the pages of the Quarterlij Statement 

 of the Palestine Exploration Fund ; a publication which like 

 our own Journal of Transactions, contains a vast amount of 

 information on Biblical Archa3ology and kindred subjects, 

 and will prove of great value for reference in time to come. 



1. The inscriptions on the Temple at Karnak by Sheshonk 

 I, who appears to be the Sliishak of Scripture (1 Kings xiv, 

 25 ; 2 Chronicles xii), giving a list of the fenced cities of 

 .ludah over which he had established his supremacy in the 

 time of Rehoboam, have been investigated by Champollion, 

 Brugsch, Blau, and others. The most recent attempts at 

 deciphering the hieroglyphic character are those of Professor 

 Maspero {Journal of VICTORIA INSTITUTE, May, 1893), who 

 to some extent supplements the results of Brugsch's investi- 

 gations {Geschichte JEgypteus, p. 666), and by transcribing 

 the Egyptian letters rigorously into Hebrew has recovered 

 the names of a large number of cities and towns recorded in 



