Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . the northern projection ofthe Gulf of Suez. The Place of the Crossing.—So far they had not gotbeyond the reach of a flank movement by Pharaohsarmy, that might cut across the desert and readily in-tercept them on the main road to Palestine. But at thispoint there was a most remarkable and apparently fool-ish and suicidal diversion of the Israelites from theironward course. Leaving the regular road to the Prom-ised Land, they were, by divine direction, turned south-ward, and reached a camp which is described as bqforePi-hahiroth, between Migdol
Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . the northern projection ofthe Gulf of Suez. The Place of the Crossing.—So far they had not gotbeyond the reach of a flank movement by Pharaohsarmy, that might cut across the desert and readily in-tercept them on the main road to Palestine. But at thispoint there was a most remarkable and apparently fool-ish and suicidal diversion of the Israelites from theironward course. Leaving the regular road to the Prom-ised Land, they were, by divine direction, turned south-ward, and reached a camp which is described as bqforePi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon. The exact locality of this camp cannot bedetermined, but every condition suits the description alittle over a days march south of Ismailia, on the westside of the Bitter Lakes. Here there is a mountainprominence, admirably conforming to the significationof the word Migdol, upon the west, which sepa-rates a narrow, level margin along the Bitter Lakesfrom the wilderness, which stretches westward to The Exodus. 109. View of Jebel Attaka, from the- Vicinity of Pi-hahiroth. This view shows the plain on which the children of Israelprobably encamped the day previous to the crossing at Cha-loof. (See map on page 96.) The vegetation in the imme-diate foreground springs up from the vicinity of the Fresh-water Canal, which is immediately in the rear. This plainis covered witk sand and gravel utterly devoid of vegetation,but showing marks of floods, produced by occasional cloud-bursts, which have gradually washed the material down thegentle slope from the mountains in the background to theaxis of depression occupied by the canal. In the vicinity ofthis axis of depression recent shells are found, while they arereported upon the flanks of Jebel Attaka up to an elevation of200 or 300 feet. From this point one has an excellent view of apicturesque mountain range upon the east, the northern por-tion of which may well correspond to Baal Zephon. no The Exodus.
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