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We fet out from Mount Sinai by the way of Scheich 
Salem ; and, after we had palled Mahomet’s Hone, 
came to the beautiful valley, mentioned in the Journal. 
I lay there (and hope I have difcovered the manna, 
but that will be the fubjedt of another paper) and did 
not fet out before day-light, that I might not pafs 
the rock which Mofes (truck twice. I fearched, and en- 
quired of my Arabs, but could neither hear nor fee any 
thing of it. I faw feveral fhort infcriptions ftained on 
fome parts of the mountains, the characters being the 
fame with thofe on mount Sinai, Meribah, &c. given 
by the bifhop of OlTory. About four miles before we 
arrived at Pharan, we palled through a remarkable 
breach in a rock ; each fide of it is perpendicular as a 
wall, about eighty feet high, and the breach is about 
forty broad. It is at this breach, I imagine, theHorites 
werefmote, four miles beyond theprefent ruins of Pha- 
ran ; for having palled this breach they could make a 
Hand, nor could they well be purfued. Here, on the 
tops of the mountains to our right hand, were ruins of 
buildings, and one feemed a callle. From Meribah to 
near this place, we had always rather defcended; in 
moll places there is the bed of a llream and after rain 
the water runs ; but a little before we came to this 
breach, it winded off towards the well, for the waters 
fail into that part of the defert we eroded from Tor. 
Between this breach and Pharan, there are feveral 
fprings, and one at Pharan where we encamped ; there 
is the bed of the river mentioned by the Journal, the 
traditional account of which agrees with what is faid 
by St. Paul. Waters feem to have run from Meri- 
bah to within about fix miles of this place ; the bed of 
n llream is here again very plain and a fpring at the 
upper 
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