. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. ed miles. At the present time it takestwelve days steady camel riding to cover the distance be-tween Suez and Mount Sinai. The Israelites spent twomonths in making the journey. On the peninsula, upon which the children of Israelwandered so many weary years, there are three groups orranges of mountains. In the northwest is a group of whichMount Serbal is the highest peak; in the southeast is thegroup about the peak of Urum Schomer, and in the east isa central cluster in which
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. ed miles. At the present time it takestwelve days steady camel riding to cover the distance be-tween Suez and Mount Sinai. The Israelites spent twomonths in making the journey. On the peninsula, upon which the children of Israelwandered so many weary years, there are three groups orranges of mountains. In the northwest is a group of whichMount Serbal is the highest peak; in the southeast is thegroup about the peak of Urum Schomer, and in the east isa central cluster in which Mount Catharine towers aboveall the rest. In this group is Mount Sinai, one of the mostremarkable mountains, not only in the whole peninsula butin the world. It rises to a height of seven thousand, threehundred and three feet above the sea level, and is highenough to present an imposing appearance from the plainbelow. The range is known as the Sinaitic Mountains, tak-ing its name from its most noted peak. We are now in one of the noted and interesting locali-ties of the world. It was from - the throne of the mount. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 451 of God that Jehovah spoke to Moses and promulgated thewisest and purest code of laws ever given to man. TheTea Commandments are in themselves a miracle, they es-tablish the divine call of Moses and place him far above allancient and modern lawgivers. The law proclaimed amidthe clouds, the thunderings, and the lightnings of Sinai hasfound its way into the codes of all the civilized and en-lightened nations of the earth. That law, given more thanthree thousand years ago, still holds an important placeand wields a wonderful influence in the world to-day. Nowonder the mountain is a noted one, and that it has beensaid that Mount Sinai looks like a huge altar of it stands in solemn silence and solitary grandeur, sur-rounded by death and desolation, and reflects the terriblemajesty and holiness of God. In ascending Jebel Musa*and
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