50 PROF. EUWAHD HDLL^ LL.D.^ F.R.S., F.G.S., ON 



sure it is to everyone here, to have had the presence of my dis- 

 tinguislied friend Sir Clias. Wilson, who is able to speak from a 

 personal knowledge of this region. 



With regard to tlie reference to Eusebius and Jerome I must 

 say he has driven a wedge into my argnment there, for I must 

 confess that he is a more reliabk^ authority as regards those two 

 venerable authors. 



Sir Chas. Wilson does not think that Eziou Gebsr was the 

 Israelites' halting place on the way to Kadesh ; but he will find 

 it so stated by Moses in J^umbers (ch. xxxiii, v. 35), and therefore 

 I must assume that to be correct. 



The Meeting was then adjourned. 



PROFESSOR A. H. SAYCE, D.U., IN REPLY. 



Luxor, Egypt. 



I have been reading Professor Hull's paper with very great 

 interest, but it does not touch the point I have raised. He shows 

 that if Ave accept the traditional view of the position of Mount 

 Sinai, Jebel Musa and the route leading to it will fultil all the 

 conditions required by the narrative of the Pentateuch. But my 

 point is that this traditional view is not older than the age of the 

 Christian hermits of the so-called Siuaitic Peninsula, and that it 

 is inconsistent with (1) the Biblical geography and (2) Egyjitian 

 history. 



(I) The Yam SCtfh oi the Old Testament, mistranslated ''the 

 Red Sea," was the Grulf of 'Akabah, according to 1 Kiugs ix, 2G, 

 Deut. i, 1, Numb, xxxiii, S-IO, not the Gulf of Suez, the Hebrew 

 name of which was " the Egyptian Sea " (Is. xi, 15). 



Jethro visited Moses at Sinai, which seems to imply proximity 

 to Midian. 



At Rejihidim the Amalekites were overthrown. The district 

 they inhabited was not in the " Sinaitic Peninsula,"' but in Edoni, 

 and' the desert south of Judah which stretched from Havilah to 

 Shur (Gen. xx.'ivi, 12, 1 Sam. xv, 7, Gen. xiv, 7, etc.) From 

 Exod. xvii, 16, we may gather that the Amalekites defeated by 

 Moses were identical with those whom Saul was ordered to 

 destroy. 



