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 . jants ofthe site having made use of it in constructing thefoundations of tlieir city wall; when this in turn hadyielded to t]\e destructive influence of time, and theearth of tlic hill-side had also fallen away, the stonerolled down into the valley, and was once morebrought forth to the light of day. We inspectedthe sjDot where it had been broken up by theBedawin, and carefully examined every fragment that
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 . jants ofthe site having made use of it in constructing thefoundations of tlieir city wall; when this in turn hadyielded to t]\e destructive influence of time, and theearth of tlic hill-side had also fallen away, the stonerolled down into the valley, and was once morebrought forth to the light of day. We inspectedthe sjDot where it had been broken up by theBedawin, and carefully examined every fragment thatremained; but, unfortunately, all the written partswere gone. Mounting our horses, we rode across the opencountry beneath a burning sun, and made for a. TOWER AT UMM RASAS. ruined town called Umm Easds, where we had beenled to expect that an inscription might be found. JfOAB. 490 It turned out, liowever, to be nothing but a rudesepulchral Nabathsean monument, of which asqueeze-impression had already reached Jerusalem. The town of Umm Rasas is of considerableextent, and contains two larjxe churches belonofinfr tothe Byzantine period. It is surrounded by a strongbuttressed wall, and is about 400 yards the town to the north is a suburb, andfarther on in the valley a number of rock-cutreservoirs, a square building, and a tower about50ft. high, ornamented at the top by a ratherpretty architectural device. The inside has beenfilled with large stones, which completely block upthe staircase. There is a legend that it was builtby a Christian cliief for his son, in order to protectthe latter from the fulfilment of a prophecy, whichforetold that on his marriage-night a wild beastwoTild devoui him. He was at last married to alovely
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