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fouth, between the mountains, but never travelled 
(as it does not lead to Suez, to which it is thirty- 
hours march from Cairo). Through this breach 
the children of Ifrael are faid to have entered 
the mountains, and not to have taken the mod; 
fouthern road, which I think mod probable : for 
thofe valleys, to*" judge by what one now fees, could 
not be paffable for Pharaoh’s chariots. This breach, 
the inhabitants told me, leads diredly to a plain 
called Badeah, which in Arabic fignifies fomething 
new and extraordinary > and alfo the beginning , as the 
beginning of every thing is new, i. e. was not be- 
fore known. 
At Suez I found an opportunity of going to Tor 
by fea, which I gladly embraced, that, by going- 
nearer the place, at which the Ifraelites are fuppof- 
ed to have entered the golf, and having a view 
from the fea, as well of that as of the oppodte 
fhore, I might be a little better able to form a judge- 
ment about it. Befides, I was willing to have the 
views, bearings, and foundings, which I took, and 
they will appear fome time or other; but this paper 
would fcarcebe their place, if I had them with me. 
When we were oppodte to Badeah, it feemed to 
me (for I was not on fhore) a plain, capable of con- 
taining the Ifraelites, with a fmall elevation in the mid- 
dle of it. I faw fomething too like ruins. The captain 
and pilots told me, that this was the place, where 
the Ifraelites entered the fea, and the ruins were thofe 
of a convent (I luppofe built on the fpot in comme- 
moration of the fad) ; they added that-there was good 
water there. There is here a drong current, which 
fets to the oppodte fhore, about fouth ead; it forms 
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