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

natives and Europeans and Is con.
ncclcd with Cairo by railroad.
Helow Suez the lakeland Of the
desert breaks abruptly of toward the
Red Sea N. a rugged line OF noun
iains, running south by east, at a dis
lance Of eight or ten miles from the
shore. Along the interval between the
brow Of these mountains aud the shore,
lies the route Of the lsfaeli,es. On the
eastern shore Of the Red Sea a short
distance below Suez, are several springs
Of blackish water called Ayun Mousa
the Fountains Of Moses where Moses
Is supposed TO have edited his tfiumphal
song. Tx. IS; f.37) the course Of
the lsraclites now lay, for some distance
down the eastern shores OF the Red
Sea, between the coast on the tight and
the mountain ridge on the left. Down
this coast they went three days Journey
In the wilderness. aud found no water
until they came to Marah, where the
waters we're 80 bitter that they could
not drink them. Here their murmuf.
lngs were siillcd by the miraculous heal
ing Of the waters. lex is;s7 ss.l
These waters are still found forty mites
below the Fountains OF Moses and are
so salt and SO bitter that even the
camtls refuse, unless very thirsty, to
drink them. The Biblical Elm, where
there were twelve wells OF water aud
three score and ten palm trees. was six
miles from March. lex 1917 Here
Is still found an abundant supply Of
water, some iillage land, several
vafiiios OF shrubs aud plants and lew
palm trees The neat cncampmcnt was
by the Red Sea mum. 55.io) AT Elm
the plain Of the coast Is interrupted by
irregular cminenccs OF mountain
ridge Or spur that comes from the noun
tains on the left. and iuts out, by high
pfecipt0us bluffs, into the sea. Extend.
log tor some distance along the coast Il
presents toward the sea, a series OF
hcadlands. black, desolate and
picturesque. Tuning oil from the
coast, the traveller passes by a ciIcuiious
route around one or two oil these head.
lands and then turns into valley which
leads again direct to the sea, where he
purucs his course along the beach un.
der high bluffs ON the lcit, until he
comes into an extensive, triangular
plain called the valley OF Case, In which
is recognized tho encampment oil the
isfaelilcs "by the sea- distant fifteen
OF twenty miles from Elm. Near this
point the coast again becomes an "a.
tcnsive desert running iar down toward
the cxifemilies ol the peninsula. This
Is the wilderness OF sin, which have al.
ready mentioned. The exact route
taken by the lstaciles from the wilder
ness OF Sin to Mount SINAI Is not known;
nor has u been proven beyond a doubt
which OF the numerous peaks Of the
Sinaitie range Is the vgntable Mount
Sinai on which the Law was given;
though some travellers claim to have
positive proofs for ~ exact location.
The mountain from which the law
was given Is denominlted HUfeb Ia
DeuL !; o, I; 1918; s; ?; iS IS In
other books Of the Pcntateueh Il Is
called Sinai. AZ the lime OF Moses
Hofeb appears TO be the generic term
Tor the group aud Sinai the name Tor
single mountain. AZ later PERIOD
Sinai becomes n general name. tActs
7;5o-5s. Cal. Ais4) As specific nantes
they arc now applied to two opposite
submits Of an ISOLATED, oblong, central
ridge about two miles In length from
north to south In the midst Of confused
group OF mountain submits. Modem
Hoteb "a a ifowning, awful ellii At tue
northern extremity oyefhanging tue
plain III Rahah. Sinai, the Mount VI
Moses. rises IN loluef, s,ernef grandeur
al the southern extremity. This over