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country which runs all along the Red Sea ; and the Ifraelites 

 were ordered to encamp at Pihahiroth, oppofite to Baal-zeph- 

 on, between Migdol and that fea. 



It will be neceflary to explain thefe names. Badeah, Dr 

 Shaw interprets, the Valley of the Miracle, but this is forcing an 

 etymology, for there was yet no miracle wrought, nor was 

 there ever any in the valley. But Badeah, means barren, bare, 

 and uninhabited ; fuch as we may imagine a valley between 

 flony mountains, a defert valley. Jibbel Attakab,\\c tranflates 

 alfo, the Mountain of Deliverance. But fo far were the Ifraelites 

 from being delivered on their arrival at this mountain, that 

 they were then in the greateft diftrefs and danger. Attakah, 

 means, however, to arrive or come up with, either beCaufe there 

 they arrived within fight of the Red Sea; or, as I am rather 

 inclined to think, this place took its name from the arrival 

 of Pharaoh, or his coming in light of the Ifraelites, when 

 encamped between Migdol and the Red Sea, 



Pihahiroth is the mouth of the valley, opening to the 

 flat country and the fea, as I have already faid, fuch are 

 called Mouths; in the Arabic, Fum; as I have obferved in my 

 journey to Cofleir, where the opening of the valley is called 

 Fum el Beder, the mouth of Beder; Fum el Terfowey, the mouth 

 of Terfowey. Hhoreth, the flat country along the Red Sea, 

 is fo called from Hhor, a narrow valley where torrents run, 

 occafioned by fudden irregular mowers. Such we have al- 

 ready defcribed on the eaft fide of the mountains, border- 

 ing upon that narrow flat country along the Red Sea, where 

 temporary fhowers fall in great abundance, while none of 

 them touch the weft fide of the mountains or valley of 



Egypt. 



