Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-12-11
Wonderful Discovery.

wonderful Discovery.
Travellers who wander in the footsteps
If the children of Israel, among the rocks
of Sinai in the bowling wilderness" find
the rocks covered with thousands of in
scrptions, and rude drawn figures of camels,
goats, lizards, serpents, horses, mules,
dogs, ostrches, tortoises; men standing,
in notion lifting the hands to heaven,
looking down, sitting on camels, horses,
and mues-armed with spears, swords,
shieIds-fghting, hunting, &c. These, in.
scriplions were first noticed by a traveller
thirteen hundred years ago: and more re-
Gently copies of some of them have reach
ed Europe, but have till now defied all Ell
forts for their decipherlng The discover
er of the key to this language is the Rev.
Mr.. Forster, of Canterbury, Eng, who
has recently issued work entitled " The
Voice of Israel from the Rocks of Sinai"
He proves that the writing is old Egyptian,
from which the Arabic language is princl'
palIy derived and that the inscrlbers
were the children of Israel, during the
forty years they sojourned in the wilder
ness. They knew the Egyptian language
as they had been for a long period, before
their exodus. in the land of bondage. We
give below a few translatons Of some OF
these inscriptions, without any punctua-
ton, as that was theu unknown. The
! words enclosed in brackets are not In the
/ original
concerning the Mwm1ring Of The lsrdet'tes at
the Well Of .Marah, and Moses Curing us b't-
teraeSs
The people with prone mouth drlnketh lat the
water springs
The people TAT the two water springs
klcketh [ikel an Ass
shifting with the branch of tree
the well of bitterness he heals Here follows
the drawing of an ass.
(1he Passage Of the Red Sea-
The people iourneyeth through the passage
terror stricken
Urges onward with slackeneG rein benignant-
y Jehovah the people
the People essayeth the waters
Pharaoh retrograding
Rens back his war horse
Fleeth the swift long horse raising both lore
feet
together going at full speed his rider dashed
TO the ground
Pharaoh running with long strides [lkel a
feet
horse takes startled flight casting off violently
with both hands to quicken [his] pace Lhis]
helmet
(.Nracuyous Supply Of Qua'ls, Or as it should be,
Gsese.)
The red geese ascend from the sea
Lusting the people feed Oh then
Here follows on the rock forty lines more,
but no copy of them has yet reached Europe.l
1.-THE .Mmmlo ing and Miracle al .Meribah.)
The People the hard stone satiates with water
thrstng
The hard rock water great miracle
(The Battle of Reph,dim. On the top is draw
ing CT Moses with uplifted hands.)
Prayeth unto God the prophet [upon] hard
great stone
This lands sustaining Aaron Hur
1.-THE Miracle at the Rock of .Neribah KadeSh,-
Three separate lnscrptlons.)
The eloquent speaker strikes the rock flows
forth the water falling down
The eloquent speaker bowlng the head takes
his rod in his hand resounds the struck rock
The People Moses provoleth to anger kicking
like an Ass
! All the water springs wanton the people rail.
eth against Jehovah
crying out
The People an ass replete with food biteth Latl
| the waters
Moses averteth his face from him Jehovah
plague Of Fiery Serpents. On the top is the
figure of serpent)
Destroy sprnging on the people the fiery ser
penis
Kissing injecting We nom heralds of death they
kill
The People prostrating on their back curling
In folds
They wind round descending on bearing des-
truCton
The people sustain on a pole erecting stand
ard
the male serpent fiery of molten brass
The people look towards the fire
bowIng themselves down sought by an evil
thing offer VOWS
the tribes (the Hebrew;)
Glasgow Christian .NtoS.