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much tlie larger of the two. The result of which is this, that 

 whereas certain critics have doubted whether at Mount Sinai any 

 place could have been found for the people, that moiintain has 

 two valleys either of which would contain theni, but only one of 

 which, as I contend, falfils the conditions of the narrative, all of 

 which are easily satisfie 1 in Wady Sebayeh. These conditions I 

 stated in au article on Sinai in Fairbairn's Bible Dictionary, but as 

 to the comjDarative size of the two valleys, if Sir Chaides Wilson's 

 Ordnance Survey were complete and included Sebayeh, it would 

 settle the question.* To that authority I have not access here, and 

 in Professor Hull's papei-, Sebayeh is not mentioned. 



The Rev. R. Cor.Lixs, M.A., writes: — 



I have read Professor Hull's paper with much interest. Xo 

 one, who has uot actually visited the sites mentioned, can speak 

 with any amount of authority. One diflficuliy with regard to the 

 I'oute laid out by Professor Hull, Dean Stanley, Mr. Clarke, and 

 others, appears to me to be, that Rephidim, where it is so em- 

 phatically said " there was no Avater," is placed in or near the 

 Wadi Peiran, which is described by Mr. Clarke as the best 

 watered part of the whole peninsula. Mr. Clarke pictures the 

 Amalekites protecting their watered valley against the Israelites; 

 and it is quite possible the miracle may have been needed on that 

 account; but the text of the Bible hardly suggests this. The 

 Amalekites seem rather to have attacked the Israelites on the 

 rear (Deut. xxv, (S). 



Another point j^erhaps requires some little explanation. 

 Most of these travellers, I observe, start their own journeys and 

 computations of time and distance from 'Ayun Miisa, opposite to 

 Suez, but tlie crossing of the waters was almost certainly many 

 miles north of this, and even perhaps north of the crossing place 

 of the " Pilgrims' road " from Cairo to Ezion Geber. Did the 

 Israelites at once turn south by the sea P There seems a little 

 difficulty here : " Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they 

 went out into the wilderness of Shur, etc." (Ex. xv, 22) ; this 

 suggests, though it does not state, that the beginning of the 

 journey was eastward. I have not noticed any other special 

 difficulties, as to this particular ti\ack. 



On the other hand, one thing seems certain, that Sinai was in 



* For want of funds this survey is still inLniuplete. — Ed. 



