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 . ^A-^ BKKRSIIKIIA. Beerslieba is perhaps one of the most interestingspots in the desert, connected as it is with some ofthe earHest scenes of Bible liistory. The (le(>]) wellof massive masonry upon wliieli we gazed in ;illprobability thr identical onr dug l)y Abialiani. tlieFatlier of tlic Faitlifnl, himself Ihe name, fJir Sfl) he gave it still clings to the spot; the l>edawin,to wh
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 . ^A-^ BKKRSIIKIIA. Beerslieba is perhaps one of the most interestingspots in the desert, connected as it is with some ofthe earHest scenes of Bible liistory. The (le(>]) wellof massive masonry upon wliieli we gazed in ;illprobability thr identical onr dug l)y Abialiani. tlieFatlier of tlic Faitlifnl, himself Ihe name, fJir Sfl) he gave it still clings to the spot; the l>edawin,to whom tlie Scrijitures aiv unknown, still jtoint withpride to the great work which their fathti- li»raliimachieved ; and, as they draw water from it for their rJDO Tllli CiriKS OF THE SOUTIf. tlnck-,, tilt* rdjics tli;ii Id the l)iu-kets down still glide;t|i>iiM- tlH> saiiio dee[) furrows in the masonry bjwliicli ilic l;itri a rolls servants let down theirs. At one oclock we left Beersheba, and, strikingacross the north-west edge of the hills which divideWiidv Seba from Wady el Khalil, proceeded to-wards the ruins of El Haura, where we were tohave encamped. At about four oclock we reached ah
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