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It will scire to give peihaps better than deecnptkn & rma^ idea of 

 the pro^e of this moiuitidn mauK of gnnite fitn the lerd of the 

 coBTent. 



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The sziili plaii3, on which srard the chspels c: Z/.'ij: izi Elisia. 

 is acccii-:ed by the monks to be paxt of Mount Hcrd'r. mi ±e term 

 of Mount Sinai is restricted to' the pe^ aibove it to the S E . c^ei 

 Jebel Musa. Xumercus hare been the ingenious objections :^ ihese 

 M traditions. Be that as it may, I think there is no man who can 

 gaze from the plain of Kr Rahah on the front cf that part of Snai 

 whidi the monks call Horeb, and after ascendii^ the peak they call 

 Snai, and examining the base of this mountain mass and the adjoin* 

 narrow defiles, without coming to the conTictkm, Uiat the whole 

 mqp here described is the Sinai and Horeb of Sciiptnre, withoot 

 reference to any particular rock, peak, or deft : and that the great 

 body of the Israelites must have encamrf i : Er Hshah in front of 

 that part of Sinai called by the monks, >' : i f ? jrlptioo cam 



coDTey to the mind of the reader, the s ? s ; z ;:* the boE- 



nes of the spot prodnced by the surrounding « ; 7 ir.i 



peculiar phy^cal aspect of this mc\i- f - * e 



beholder. 



It seems both puerile ar : e to hesitate, : 



because the great leader c : ; 1 

 this or that part of the n:: 



times a day to its more inacoessiblr r r .? ^ .: have b; 

 eical impossibility. 



I can omIt say in my own case that the;: .5^ 

 theories were immediately dispersed like the mists cf t c ? 



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