Demonstration of the truth of the Christian . passed through the plain and flowed into the RedSea, is strikingly illustrative of the scriptural narrative, asColonel Leake, the learned editor of Burckhardts work, hasobserved ; and that fact has since been amply elucidated bythe scientific Leon Laborde, and the evidence is set beforeus by a chart of the channel, or of the valley through whichthe Jordan flowed, and which still retains its name, El Ghor,where the Jordan once flowed as where it still flows on. And while the alleged want of a contemporary history isthus newly supplied, a
Demonstration of the truth of the Christian . passed through the plain and flowed into the RedSea, is strikingly illustrative of the scriptural narrative, asColonel Leake, the learned editor of Burckhardts work, hasobserved ; and that fact has since been amply elucidated bythe scientific Leon Laborde, and the evidence is set beforeus by a chart of the channel, or of the valley through whichthe Jordan flowed, and which still retains its name, El Ghor,where the Jordan once flowed as where it still flows on. And while the alleged want of a contemporary history isthus newly supplied, a still more recent discovery presentsa contemporary picture, coeval with the birth of Moses, andcopied by Rosselini and Wilkinson, which may be said to bea commentary on the first chapter of Exodus, and to set theIsraelites before our eyes actually engaged in the hard bond-age in mortar and brick as Moses described them. TheEgyptian taskmaster is set over them with a rod in his hand; * Bochart, &c. t Mrs. Somerville on the Physical Sciences, p. c runtu^.l-Ai,:
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