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•thence in many years, that it was two eafy days 
journey off, but the road was mountainous ; fo one 
may fuppofe the diftance lets than forty miles. The 
Arabs agreed as to the road ; but they laid, it was 
once a large place, where their prince lived, whofe 
daughter Mofes married, that Mofes was afterwards 
their prince, and the greateft of all prophets. Thele 
Arabs place Mofes the firft, Salomon the fecond, 
Mahomet the third, Chriff the fourth, and then the 
prophets of the Bible. As to Dzahab, the Monks only 
knew the diftance to be four days journey, and that 
there was a road from it to Jerufalem : the Arabs told 
me the fame, fo the diftance is about eighty miles. I 
enquired of them all about the ruins ; they told me 
there were very confiderable ones about half way to 
Dzahab, about forty miles from Sinai j but I fhould 
think Kadefh muft have been much nearer to Jeru- 
falem. I would willingly have gone to thefe places; 
but as the four clans of Arabs, which inhabit this 
promontory, were then at war one with the other, I 
could get no conductor. In another journey I hope to 
be more lucky, for this is all hearfay; however, com- 
bining the whole together, and comparing it with 
what we collect from Scripture, I think we mav well 
conclude, Sharme to be Midian, and Meenah El 
Dzahab to be Eziongeber : what the interjacent ruins 
are I cannot conjecture ; but I believe I have found 
Kadefh Barnea to be elfewhere. I think it cannot be 
here, for the Ifraelites were on the borders of the 
Holy Land, or Land of Promife, when they were 
ordered back; and when they were flopped by the 
Moabites, they are faid to have been brought up 
from Kadefh Barnea ; and I meet with no place in 
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