Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . The monkshad arranged a series of large slabs in tolerablyregular order, which once formed a convenientstaircase to the top of the mountain. The rains,however, have disturbed them, and, as no repairshad been for a long time attended to, the stairswere in many places in ruins. Just before reachingthe foot of Sinai, immediately after quitting Horeb,the traveller sees a door built in the form of anarch; on the key-stone of the arch a cross hasbeen carved. A tradition, preserved by the monk
Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . The monkshad arranged a series of large slabs in tolerablyregular order, which once formed a convenientstaircase to the top of the mountain. The rains,however, have disturbed them, and, as no repairshad been for a long time attended to, the stairswere in many places in ruins. Just before reachingthe foot of Sinai, immediately after quitting Horeb,the traveller sees a door built in the form of anarch; on the key-stone of the arch a cross hasbeen carved. A tradition, preserved by the monks,and repeated by many pilgrims, informs us, that aJew, having been desirous of ascending MountSinai, was stopped by an iron crucifix, which prevented him from pursuing his way; and that, to re-move the enchantment, he had himself baptized atthe head of a stream which runs into the affecting custom used to take place near thisdoor: one of the monks of the convent employedhimself there at prayer, and heard the confessionsof the pilgrims, who, when thus nearly at the end » Kxodus, iii. 1, SUMMIT OP SINAI. 241 of their pilgrimage, were not in the habit of accom-plishing it until after they had obtained absolution.
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