Part I. 
Travels into the. Levant. 
Î 7 I 
. Ç H A P. XXX. 
Of Mount Horeb^ and of the V lace ivherethe 
Golden Calf ivas molten^ &c. 
Fter we had walked round that Monaftery, we returned, and faw at fome Mount //ore^. 
_ _ fmall diftance, Mount Horeb, on which Mofes fed his Flocks, v/hen he 
faw the Burning Bufh. And near to that, are the Mountains upon which Aaron 
prayed for the People, all little ones. There is a fair Garden adjoyning to 
rhe Monaftery, and within the Walls of it, a lovely Chappel, dedicated to the . 
Holy Virgin. Upon our return from the Monaftery of the Forty Martyrs, 
about half a quarter of a league from the faid Garden, we faw the Stone, or 
rather Place where the Golden Calf was molten ; it is in the very Rock, where -j-he jiace 
one may fee a great Head of a Calf cut to the life , and within that place it was where the 
(as the Greeks fay) that the Riches and Ornaments of the Ifraelites were cad-, Golden Calf 
of which they made the Head of the Golden Calf that they worfliipped while ^^'^^ molten, 
Mofes was with God upon the Mountain: But it is more probable that the 
Greeks have in that place cut the Head of the Calf in the Rock, to fliew the 
place where it was Caft, or where it was placed upon a Pillar. Something 
near to that, there is a high and great Stone, with fome lafcription upon it, 
but fo defaced, that none of it can be read. The Greeks fay that this Stone 
was to mark the place where Jeremiah hid the Veflels of Gold and Silver, and 
other coftly Furniture of the Temple of Salomon^ when the Ifraelites were 
carried away Captives to Babylon.^ and that it is not known how it hath been 
brought thither, but that there is a very ancient Authour that fpeaks of it, 
as being on Mount Sinai. Father Kercher explains it' in his Prodromits Copticus^ ^ , 
where he forges an Explanation of thefe Charadlers, which are unknown to all ckr 
Men befides himfelf, as if they were Hieroglyphicks, whereof without doubt 
he hath had the meaning by Revelation. I relate all thefe things according to 
the Tradition of the People of the Countrey, which not being authorized by 
Texts of Scripture, nor ancient Hiftory, I leave it to the Reader to believe 
or not believe, as he thinks fit. 
Having feen what was to be feen, we returned to the Monaftery of the 
Forty Martyrs , very weary after fo much mounting and defcending. Our 
luck was good that no Wind blew when we went up thefe Mountains, for 
whether hot or cold, it would have kill'd us* 
CHAP. XXXL 
Of our Return to Suez. 
WEE had fo bad entertainment on Mount Sinai, that we thought of Return frora 
nothing but of returning as foon as we could to Suez., where we hoped Mount sind 
to refrefh ourfelves ^ and therefore Monday the Fourth of February, havingtoSwe^. 
made a Prefent of fome Money to the Monk who lives in the Monaftery of the 
Forty Martyrs, we fet out at eight of the clock in the morning, to go fee what 
ftill remained to be feen, being unwilling, notwithftanding all our fatigue, 
to leave any thing unfeen ; we went firft to the Church of the Twelve Apoftles, 
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