. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. :^ flS*^ General View of the Crows Nest, from the Pyramids. of the British Geological Survey, were pronounced tobe indistinguishable from Alectryotiia cucullata. Born,a variable form which occurs in Pliocene deposits andalso lives at the present day in the Red Sea. This sea-beach was first discovered by Dr. Oscar Fraas, and hasbeen described by Schweinfurth and Dawson. Theseobservers noticed, also, that the face of the plateau hadbeen pierced by lithodomus mollusks {Pholades rugosa,Broc.) and reported shells of Ostrea undata, Goldf.,and Pec
. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. :^ flS*^ General View of the Crows Nest, from the Pyramids. of the British Geological Survey, were pronounced tobe indistinguishable from Alectryotiia cucullata. Born,a variable form which occurs in Pliocene deposits andalso lives at the present day in the Red Sea. This sea-beach was first discovered by Dr. Oscar Fraas, and hasbeen described by Schweinfurth and Dawson. Theseobservers noticed, also, that the face of the plateau hadbeen pierced by lithodomus mollusks {Pholades rugosa,Broc.) and reported shells of Ostrea undata, Goldf.,and Pec ten Dunkri, Ma^^ Another locality where similar evidence occurs is atthe base of the Mokattam Hills, upon the opposite side The Exodus. 99. Near View of the Raised Beach on the Crows Nest. of the Nile from the pyramids. Concerning this, Pro-fessor Edward Hull, in his Memoir on the Geologyand Geography of Arabia Petrasa, Palestine, and Ad-joining Districts, sajs:— It was first recognized by Fraas, and more recentlyexamined by Schweinfurth, who pointed out the tracesof the ancient shore-line to the author on the occasionof our visit to Cairo in November, 1883. On ascend-ing the Alokattam Hills towards Gebel el Ahmar, we lOO The Exodus. pass over a tract of undulating ground, and reach theline of the railway from Abbasieh, and here it is saidthat our observations commence. We discover, fromcertain openings, that the ground is formed of beds ofpurple and yellow sand and fine gravel, a little marland clay, with specimens and fragments of Terebratula(T. for scat a), Ostrea (O. cucullataj Born)^ Pecten,and Balanus—shells or species of which do not occurin the Eocene limestone formation. On crossing therailway and ascending t
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