The desert of the Exodus : journeys on foot in the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings : undertaken in connexion with the ordnance survey of Sinai, and the Palestine exploration fund . an the task of determining to wdiatrace they once belonged; the remains are certainlysome of the most interesting which I have met within the East. The country all around is covered withthem, every hill-side having some remains of nawdmisupon it; but, owing to theu exposed position, theyhave none of them been preserved in so perfect astate as those just described. Close by the nawdmiswere some stone circle
The desert of the Exodus : journeys on foot in the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings : undertaken in connexion with the ordnance survey of Sinai, and the Palestine exploration fund . an the task of determining to wdiatrace they once belonged; the remains are certainlysome of the most interesting which I have met within the East. The country all around is covered withthem, every hill-side having some remains of nawdmisupon it; but, owing to theu exposed position, theyhave none of them been preserved in so perfect astate as those just described. Close by the nawdmiswere some stone circles. There would seem to havebeen a large settlement of these people in the neigh-bourhood ofAin elElyd,. The word ndmus is not THE SOUTHERX EDGE OF THE Till. 319 known beyond Sinai, the Arabs in other parts ofthe desert calling them merely gitsiir, or castles. From the base of Jebel el Ejmeh (the name givento the edge of the Tih plateau on the south andsouth-east) a broad valley runs down towards thesandy plains by Ain Hudherali, turning northwardhowever to Wady el Ain at the Migrah or depres-sion just spoken of. It is called El Biyar, thewells, from three or four deep but dirty wells. which exist there, the first we had met with of thepattern so common throughout Palestine. In these,several large stone troughs arc ])r(>vided for tlic pui--|iose of watering the flocks and liods, ;iii(l the inDiitliof the wells itself is sto})j km] up with ;i stone, to -i~o THE .^ofTJ/EJi-A j:j)<;k of the tiu. l)e rolled away wlien occasion requires, precisely inthe iiiaiiuei- (Icsciil)(.(! in Genesis (xxix, 10), and itcame to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughterof Labaii liis mothers brother, and the slieep ofLaban his mothers brotlier, that Jacob went near,and rolled the stone from the wells mouth andwatered the flock. In addition to the ammonia with wdiich the goatsof centuries had impregnated the water of El Biydrit contained a strong solution of Epsom salts, but, asthere was
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