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facred writing, or any antient geographer, neither 
Strabo nor any other, that draw the line of divifion 
between this promontory and the Land of Promife fo 
low down ; nor could they do it, as thefe ruins are 
within almoft feventy miles of the extremity of it. 
There are two roads from Mount Sinai to Jerufalem, 
the one through Pharan, the other by the way of Dza- 
hab : that through Pharan is eleven days journey ; two 
to Pharan, three to a ftation of the Mecca Pilgrims 
called Scheich Ali, one and an half to fome confider- 
able ruins ; all this to the northward : from thence 
four and fomething more to Jerufalem, by way of 
Hebron, leaving the Afphaltic Lake on the right 
hand to the foutheaftward. The other way is longer, on 
account of the road being more mountainous; that too 
paftes the fame ruins, and alfo Scheich Ali. I en- 
quired about this, when I was atjerufalem, and receiv- 
ed the very fame account, with this addition, that fuch 
Mahometans, as went from Jerufalem to Mecca, went 
that way, to joi n the Cairo caravan at Scheich Ali. This 
feems to be a f tuation oppofite. to Kadefh Barnea ; 
at the line drawn by all the geographers; it is 
without Mount Sinai (taken for this whole tradt); and 
juft before the Moabites, as the children of Ifrael 
palled by Mount Hor, now Acaba, leaving the 
Afphaltic Lake on their left hand, to the northweft. 
The tradition too of the Arabs is, that they palled this 
way ; therefore, I think, Kadefh Barnea mull be near 
this fpot. There are here confiderable ruins ; and I 
know of no city that ever was here, for Petra lay 
more to the eaft, between the Afphaltic lake and 
the Elanitic golf. To leave no enquiry wanting, 
1 alked the Rabbins of Jerufalem, where they placed 
Kadefh Barnea; and they Laid, thefe ruins.. 
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