Litchfield enquirer., 1874-08-27
''He divided the sea and caused them to pass through and be made the waters


 to pass through :; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. "-A 2 asg A"41
 The city of Raafnses then was situated upon the Tanitic branch of the Nile, then 3 very large stream, and was the key to the passage between Egypt and Asia. It was near the fortress of Migd0l, where the Tsraelites made Q halt, and is not far from another district of which the capital. Pithone, was one of the "tfeasure cities" built by the Hebrews, according to the book of Exodus These several districts, as also Goschen, which the Pharaoh of the time gave to Jacob, were inhabited not by Egyptians but by the Khalon, d mixed race which ruled over the Phenl- clans and Bedoins of Arabia, and which even now occupies the borders of Lake Menzaleh. Tho journey of the Hebrews from Raamses to MigdOl, is exactly that followed, according to papyrus in the British museum, by 0 man charged with the duty of pursuing and recovering two slaves who had escaped from the service of great lord of tho Egyptians These slaves also tried to reach the desert, flee ing from Raamses to Succuth thence to Khatom (the Ethan of the scriptures), and to Migdol. If Moses took this route and did not enter at once into the land of 
 IT.. had with that people treaty, the text of which, engraven upon monument, yet exists at Thebes. By this treaty Raamses and the prince of the Khetiens, tho most powerful of tho rulers iH the land of Canaan, mutually bound themselves to return all persons escaping from the ser vice of the other into their own territory. In consequence of his knowledge of this treaty Moses led the people of Israel more to the north, and crossed, not the Red Sea, but, at the lower coasts of the Mediterra- mean, the lake anciently called Sirbonis.
 The high tide which overlook the troops of Pharaoh Meneptah, son of Pharaoh Raamses H., in whose reign the exodus took place, is common occurrence in these parts, Both Strabo and Didorus Siculus cite facts which go to show that in the regions called ''the gulfs, sudden swelllngs of the water are observed, and at such time King Artaxerxes, who was leading an expidition against Egypt, lost his entire army by drowning. The ac- count of the journey of the, Hebrews un- der, Moses is entirely consistent with these facts and this theory. They followed the wilderness of Shuy, which is situated be- tween the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Suez, The bitter waters of. Marah are the brakish waters of the Suez lakes. Film, where they made halt, is today called Fin Musa. And it was only after they had crossed tho isthinus that they turned and came to the wilderness of Si- mai. By Q comparison of the Bible with ancient documents and geographical facts, Brugsch-Bey has been enabled to offer a reasonable simple and positive explana- tion of an event which biblical commenta- tors hava for more than eighteen centureis badly comprehended and wrongly inter- preted. He does not reject the theory of divine intervention for the relief of the children of Israel, but he does show where and how Q certain natural phenomenon might have come to their relief, especially if Moses had happened to know the curi- ous freak of nature at the point where he crossed.-Boston AClvertiseg. sa..ait