. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. o the wilderness for which they had applied. It is, therefore,evident that their next move must decide their future course, and convey to the Egyptians aclear and decisive intimation of their intentions. If they designed to do as they had all alongdeclared to be their only wish, they would stay at this place and proceed to celel)rale thefeast to Jehovah, of which so much had been said : but, if they intended to escape altogether,they would resume their journey, and, passing by the head of the Red S
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. o the wilderness for which they had applied. It is, therefore,evident that their next move must decide their future course, and convey to the Egyptians aclear and decisive intimation of their intentions. If they designed to do as they had all alongdeclared to be their only wish, they would stay at this place and proceed to celel)rale thefeast to Jehovah, of which so much had been said : but, if they intended to escape altogether,they would resume their journey, and, passing by the head of the Red Sea, strike off into thedesert. And here God, who knew that the king of Egypt had so far recovered his consterna-tion that he was determined to pursue and drive them back, if they made any move indicatingan intention to escape, directed a move which must have been most unexpected to all parties,and which could not to any indifferent spectator have seemed the result of the most gross andfatal infatuation. About the head of the Gulf of Suez a desert plain extends for ten or twelve miles to west. [Suez from the novth-east.] and north of the city of that name. On the west this plain is bounded by the chain of Attaka,which comes down towards the sea in a north-easterly direction. Opposite Suez tliis chain isseen at a considerable distance, but, as we advance southward, the mountains rapidly approachthe sea, and proportionately contract the breadth of the valley; and the chain terminates atthe sea, and seems, in the distant view, to shut up the valley at Ras-el-Attaka, or Cape Attaka,twelve miles below Suez. But on approaching this point, ample room is found to passbeyond; and on passing beyond we find ourselves in a broad alluvial plain, forming the mouthof the valley of Bedea. This plain is on the other or southern side nearly shut up by thetermination of another chain of these mountains, which extend between the Nile and thewestern shore of the Red Sea. Any further progress in this
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