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i put on. paper what feel this homenk
is | sit apart from my companion on the
very summit Of Mount Sinai. wiiAhe Elk.
| patded plains before me ID whid Israel
eRcanped at the giving Of the W II
is impossible TO doubt !. ! feel thl truth
and BY faith see the lightniogs, lar the
thupders. and the trumpet waxig lou.
der and louder and feel this vasworId |
ol dark. dFeary desolation, vithiuw hich
Horeb Is inclosed as sa9duay, Quake
under the tread Of H. Sh1s S561s :!
III bad heap-sR <43isnaiIss Tnesr IN anciehs
Memphis) BY the Waly.el .TebsPr "Vat-
ley Of the Wanderingl" whichFonnects
With the Red Sea, bout fifteen miles
south Of Suez. through Nady Thsrik, BY
one ofth most fearful aud peculsr noun
tains. passes 10 be found on Srth and
aad+ there seen The physical tpth OF the1
j Scriptures, where the people we're ''er-
tangled III he lard. and'ths wilderness
pf lhe HRed Sea had shut dem 10, The
sialy place between the NIlssndthe sea
81 which the Scripture hipry can BE
20 cleafIysand so positively sllmed; then.
i'll bad stood on the cPPosil shore, and
looked down upon the wales 10 which
Phsraoh's host had fss0nkts lead, and
there read the tIiumphaftonlo Of Moses.
Exodus. chap. XVI | shoad have ~ |
that nowhere else, nor unoFs any oiheI
circumstances, could that, tcomParable'
composition have been proalced ; then
I II followed them three days 10 the
wilderness oil Shur." 10 theipresent bit
ter fountain of Hamarah, Ette Scripture
.Hosfah, and next day 10 the Waays ga
1r1ndel ADD Usait. where yet4 water and
70 any palm trees amidst t1urroonding
desolalion, | should have4sip, (" Here is
Elm, !" with its twelve wells Of water,
ahd threescore and ten palm trees" Ex-
odus ~ J and from thence following their
track through Wady FieIan. had sud
denly issued through the Pas Nukb
Hawy out into the plain Of Rehsh, which
now lies before me atthe bs<e Of the per,
penpicular walls of 7Horeb, rising like a
terrible battlement 4welve huldred Tor
fifteen hurfdred feet high 'wilhMt valley
Of Wady Sheik 10 the rlghtfand lhe wide
mouth ot Wady Leja TO the let, all in
full view OF the gloomy. stern, fssolate,
thunder splintered pinnacles. whefe l
now sill; would have bowed 20 The az
thor,y4of the holy history OF Moses, sim
ply upon the grounds OF its geographical
accuracy, which no wrilerss ascent OF
modern. has equallsd, though he wrote
three thousand FIVE hundred years ago,
and iniythe midst Of an encampmeat 4oi
two millions OF people, who depends
upon him for guidance and salvation
| Yet this accuracy is notthe result Of reul'
sion through successive ages, Tor no Jew
has ever made a pilgrimage TO Horeb.
/ (which is itself a miracle,) except The
prophet Elijah, who fled from Jezebel,
and whose pretended resting place mi the
rock was shown US today .
Buthhe shades Of evening are drawing
on and the dark shadows Of the lofty
mountains ara already projected far iato
1.-The sadly plain. Oil yon glorious sun,
i fast descending westward behind thegels
tant gloomy mountains. and just now VIII
bis orient beams tinting the dawn 10 you,
heavens, under which dwell all that
hold most dear on earth; il bis mild beams
(which now fall almost level on me, coult
but cohveyto you what | feel this moment
III would be an epistle indeed. Bit
Unjust hasten down from the Mount oiGot
and rest me in the monastery. built a
lIliadAspn says. where Moses beheld th'
IIburniag bush. There hope TO finish tn
letter and say how Ilhaye spent the do.
Of the. Lord ia his holy mountain, flo
clell 9f which was so fortunate TO find
4 young. vigorous shrub. planted BY To-
II hand lof the Almighty in his own .hol
! hill which have cut. and purpose, itGp,
! spare us 10 peel again, and spend an hou
1 OF leisure together, to present 70 YOU an
to explain. al length why | have sdaple'
4 the new route (lhe southerni for isrse
from Egypt to the Red Sea. route owe
which no one, believe. has passed here
toioIe. Mbo has written expressly "a "
su5ietl, but whach has often been sugges
ted BY eminent travellers. who have lei
pressed with the difficulties Of the mol
iherni route By Suez, among whom ar
Buckhardt and Lsborde./
Il | wish ! could sil here in this deep soil
luds tcr an hour longer. but my conpan
ious and one guide are gone, and the Oh
er, young, active Arab. Is crouched
my feet looking with advertisement
my writing and apparent earnestness
and sfems 10 say. as be casts glance
the setting sun. The sray down e long On
dangerous. So, | must say, FarsH1sH
thee, Sinai have stood upon the Alp
10 ths middIe.ot J-siy. and looked afoon
uponlihe snowy empiTe--l have slocd uF
on The Apeuines, aud looked abroad Up
on the plains OF beautiful. eveasinl ltal
II have stood uponihe Albanian noun
4 and beheld the scene Of The Enelad lEor
the f:ircesn propoulory. over the Gan
II pagns. 10 The eternal city and lne noun
.ains of TIvoli--f have sal down upon ii
II pyramids Of Egypt, and cast my eyes
yer the sacred city Of Hsliopolts. the Ian
II Of Goshen. the fields Of Jewish bondage
l. and The ancient Memphis. where Nose
. and Aason, on The part Of God and b
people, conseBded with Pharaoh and b
servants. The death Of whose stiTsl Dor
II or nftn and besst in one night oiled Ii
Had with wsiling: but have never s.
II ny loot on any spot. from whence va
4 visible so much stern gloomy eFnndeul
Il heightened BY The silence and soliiud
slthslskeien around infinitely more heigh
III aDh1 nv the awful and sacred association