Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-10-03

Of the Cult II Sucs consist q mass
OF htmatite Of ? dtcn fuidy hue, rising
abruptly 10 a height cf 1850 feet This
IS label Leyt and the region Is famous
w liable as well rs In modern history.
u Is so powerfully magnetic that II
elects the compass OF shin passing
near, and the sea in is neighborbood il
often marked with oily patches from the
emulation oil petroleum. Great hopes
were once entertained and great sums
spent on behring's at this place that the
revenues OF Egypt might profit; but
though considerable quantity OF oil
was found the quality was too poor to
make u a profitable article Of commerce.
The red mountain probably commune.
Gated It's name TO the whole see. Of
which Il forms the portal, and perhaps
some Of the wonders Of the Arabian
Nighls were eNaggcfations OF the
powers OF the mountain Of loadstone,
and OF the oily waves. The old Arab
name OF the Red sea " Bahr Melch, or
the Salt sea, but Bihr NJ Ahmar, or the
Red, also occurs. Yam SUI, the "Sea OF
Weeds" is the Hebrew name. The
Gull OF Sucz was called by the Arab
geographers the sea OF Colzoum, a cor.
fuption Of Clysma, the Greek name of
Sucz. The Red sea proper Is about
I ,7eo miles long, with an average width
OF ptfhaps $50 or 800 miles. Aside
rom is historical importance, this sea
has number Of peculiafitics, one OF
which Is that not a single permanent
stream Of any siz puts into Il. the lands
on either side beng sandy descrs.
AS we sailed UP the Gull OF Suez,
Which Is only about twenty miles wide
on an average, land was IN plain view
on both sides, but that on The fight
though farther away iTom us than thai
on the LETT, was most interesting, as the
landscape there Included the sinaitic
mountains ana the wilderness Of Sin oi
Bible fame.
The Sinailic mountains, comprising
the triangular peninsula between the
two arms Of the Red sea, consist OF an
innumepble multitude OF sharp rocky
SUBMITS thrown together In Wild con.
fusion. rising to different heights, leaf.
less and barren without the least trace
OF yefdurc to relieve the stern and
awful features OF the prospect The
rocks which bound the deep narrow.
torluous fayincs betwcent the mountain
~ basalt sands one and gfanile ware.
gated with an endless variety II hues
from the brightest yellow to the deepest
greer. The view from one OF these
submits Is said TO present a perfect sea
Of dcsolalion without a parallel ON the
lace Of the earth. The valleys OF
gofges between the submits sink into
Ccep and narrow rcvines with almost
perpendicular sides Of several hundred
feet In height iofming a mass OF iTegu.
lar dehts, which eau be safely ira
vrfaed orly by the wild Arab, who has
his habiiation m the cliffs OF tue valleys
amid these eternal soliiudes, Toward
the north the wilderness oi mountains
slopes Gown In an irregular cufvilinear
liuc which turns outward like cfts.
cent, aud runs OFT on the one hand to.
ward the head Of the eastern gull OF
the Red sea, and IN the other northwest
toward The western extremity OF the
sea Itself, near the gull OF Suez a, the 1
head OF which Is the modern town aud
port OF Sutz and the south entrance OF
the Suez canal THIS long, irregular
crescent marks the outline Of high
Chain Of mountains, IL Tlh, extending
eastward from the Red sea south Vi
Sues IN a continued range TO the Ailani-
tic gull, or guilt ~ Akaha, n distance Of
40 miles, which forms the southern
abuimtnt OF high table land, vast
desert utterly deso'ate and barren, with
a slight inclination 10 the north toward