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of the golf at Suez, and at moft three foot deep at low 
water, for it is then conftantly waded over, could not 
have contained fo many people, or drowned Pharaoh’s 
army. There would have been little necetfity for his 
cavalry and chariots to precipitate themfelves after a 
number of people on foot, incumbered with their wives, 
children, and baggage j when they could foon have 
overtaken them with going fo little about. Thefe rea- 
fons, added to the fignificant names of the places, Tau- 
riche Beni Ifrael, road of the children of Ifrael ; A ttacah. 
Deliverance, Pihahirotb, whether an appellative or 
fignihcative ; Badeah, new thing, or miracle ; Bachorel 
Polfum, fea of deftrudlion ; convince me, that the 
Ifraelites entered the fea at Badeah, and no where elfe. 
Befides, all the reft of the coaft from Suez, and below 
Badeah, is fteep rocks, fo there muft have been another 
miracle for them to defcend: the current too fetsfrom 
this place where we encamped, toward the oppofite 
ihore, into the pool Birque Pharaone, Pool of 
Pharaoh, where, the tradition is, his hoft was drown- 
ed : a current, formed, I fuppofe, by the falling and 
rufhing of one watery wall on the other, and driving 
it down : a current, perhaps, by God permitted to re- 
main ever fince, in memoriam rei ; the diftance 
10 the bitter waters is about thirty miles. I omitted 
to mention in its place, that, between this and Koron- 
del, we were not fo lucky as the author of the Journal, 
who met with a charming rivulet of fweet water ; we 
met with none, good or bad. The Ain Moufa, which 
the Ifraelites would have met with, if they had 
palled at Suez, and the coafl from hence fouth- 
vvard, about a mile to Tor, being all rock and 
fleep too, induce me to believe, that they enter- 
