The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-10-21

Mr.. Hunter, of the Syria mission, scnding
to- the Missionary House u copy of the
/ following letter, written by him to ono OF
the 7. q cssors at Audovcr, expresses much
| confidence that " This is The identical rock
/ from whence flowed the stream which
uucnchci the thirst OF the thousands of ls-
racl :" and says future travellers will prob
ably confirm hiS opinion"
BrlWUr, SYRiN, May 30.
/ lhving recently rctuacd from visit to
Mount sinai, | thought you would he inter
/ cstrd in the discovery ot II spring Of water
under the east side of Mount lioreb, which
/ | can not learn has been noticed by any
/ traveller who has written on Sinai, but which
is 40 striking that had il been seen it
would certainly have been mentioned In
coming toward Mount lIcrch, we took the
| road followed by Dr. Robinson, by Wady-
| cr.hah On page 80 of the frat volume Of
/ his researches, he says: "On tho left OF
! lIorcb. a deep and narrow valley runs up
south-suuthcast between lofty walls of
| rock. as il in continuation of the southeast
corner of the plain. In this valley, at the
| distance of nearly mile from the plain,
stands the convent
On the east side of this valley, and at
its entrance is a small hill, separated from
! the mountain by II road about one hundred
| feet across, which travellers follow in go.
iug to the convent from Wady.cs- -Shcikh,
while thoBc who 20 TO the convent by
, Wady.cr Rahah pass Oh the west side of
the hlll On the south side of this hill is tho
camping ground, and in getting to it we
make short circuit of five minutes ride
/ 10 avoid PERCEPTIONS bank, On arriving
AT unr camping ground We requested our
ca ucccls, before dispensing to our homes,
to ill their barrels with water They said
they would take two of them TO spring
where there was Il reservoir, into which
they would place them. They pointed ont
10 us the direction on the west side of the
valley, under nurcb, and wo perceived u
few trees at that place. Toward evening
told my party that would go and see
whether they had filed and sunk the bar
rcls in the pool. The direction of the spring
was straight across the valley from the
camping ground.
After leaving tho tents, in about two
minutes ! assembled the ground where wo
made tho circuit, thcn passed down Il slight
declivity, after which the ground gradually
rose until | reached the spring, in about
ten minutes, by u rugged path over rough
bowllors of Siuaitc granite. Hero | was
/ surprised TO lind "a fine spring of pure wa
ter lssuing from rent in the rock. The
rent was in an oblique direction, the high
est part OF il on the left, aud sloping down
toward the right. The lowest part Of it
was AS high as mans head from the ground.
The surrounding rock is the soilcd red gran
ito of Sinai, smooth on the face and un-
broken hy tissure or seam. The fssure is
about six feet long, four inches wide, five
inches deep at the bottom, and twelve at
the top, and runs down into the rock par.
allcl with the perpendicular sido of the
mountain. The water seems to issue about
two feet above the bottom of the rent, flew
ing ovor the lowest part of il in Il stream
about the thickness of mans finger
Tho reservoir is about twelve foot long
by five in width, and four feet deep, and
was nearly full when | reached tho place.
When full, tho water ia lot of, to irrigate
somo twouty or moro fruit trees. AS waE
the first las far as am aware) to observe
, this singular rent" in the Rock of Horeb'
and am unable 10 find any alusion TO il il
the books of Burckhardt Robinson, Stan
, ley, or other travellers, have thought il
my duty 10 inform the public of the fact, IL
ordcr that future travellers may not fail tr
soc it, Could wo suppose that Moses had
rod about six feet long, and that, raising
the lower end of it as high as his head
struck it oblQucly against the granite cliff
and that n wodge-shapod cavity was thus
mraculously formed this would meet the
conditions exactly.
would simply state that made the
= above discovery on the Goth of February.