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CHAPTER II.
Mountain of the Bell—Remarkable Phenomenon connected with
it—Return to T6r—Start for Suez—Desolate Scetiery—Night
on the Desert—Mount Serbal—Mirage—Daybreak in the East
—Ras Selima—Arab Freedom of Manners—Well of Pharaoh—
Excessive Heat—An Alarm—Endurance of the Camel—Ma-
rali—Fountain of Moses—Arrival at Suez—Passage of the
Israelites.

In the same chain of El Heman, and at an

equal distance from the sea as the Jebel
Mokatteb, from whence, in a north-west di­

rection, it is distant about a quarter of a
mile, stands the Jebel Narkous, or “ Moun­
tain of the Bell.” Considerable attention has
also of late years been directed towards the
phenomenon connected with this remarkable
spot, though the accounts hitherto furnished
by travellers are neither so full nor so satis­
factory as could be wished. It forms one of
a ridge of low calcareous hills, at a distance

of three miles and a half from the beach, to
which a sandy plain, extending with a gentle