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44 Ton TO SUEZ. [CH.

Girandel, where there is still water and
palm trees, would be Elim:—
Numb, xxxiii. 10.—“ And they removed from
Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.*’
This is the only part where the road abso­

lutely skirts the Red Sea, and is therefore
strongly corroborative of this being the line of
their route.
Subsequently, as is there described, the road
by W&di Siddera again enters the mountains.
We have nothing beyond their mere names
by which other localities can be identified;

but from the shores of the Red Sea, near
Ras Silima, where I suppose them to have
encamped, to Mount Sinai, five stages are
enumerated. It occupied me twenty-five
hours, which would also give daily marches
of five hours, as much, in all probability, as
they could have accomplished *.

• ITINERARY. h. m.
From the convent to the foot of the pass 4 0
Wadi Szah....................................... 2 25
To a defile in W&di Feiran 3 30
Extremity of date grove 2 25
Halting place—Wadi Mokatteb 4 50
Wadi Mokatteb .... 2 50
Wadi Siddera .... 5 10
Has Silima........................................... 1 30
25 20