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 . CHAPTER IV. THE WILDERNESS OF KADESH. Ain Gadis; reasons for its identification with Kadesh ; its situationon the southern border of the Holy Land; ascent of the of Eshkol; Dr Robinsons Kadesh. Wady Muweilih. Cliris-tian Hermitages. Xature of Arab tribe-marks. Gaseimeh. Entrance into the Ncgeb or South Country. Immediately below the ruins, Wikly Lussdn be-gins to narrow, and pre
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 . CHAPTER IV. THE WILDERNESS OF KADESH. Ain Gadis; reasons for its identification with Kadesh ; its situationon the southern border of the Holy Land; ascent of the of Eshkol; Dr Robinsons Kadesh. Wady Muweilih. Cliris-tian Hermitages. Xature of Arab tribe-marks. Gaseimeh. Entrance into the Ncgeb or South Country. Immediately below the ruins, Wikly Lussdn be-gins to narrow, and presently debouches upon a largeopen plain, where it is met by Wddy Jerur and othersmaller wddies, which take their rise in the plateauof Jebel Magnlh. The view is a fine one, althoughthe outlines assumed by the limestone are not veryimposing, and the landscape lacks the beautifulcolouring of the Sinai mountains. From the cliffswhich bound the plain, runs down a valley calledWddy CJadis, a spring of that name rising at itshead, and the plain itself may be identified almostindisputably with tlie Wilderness of Kadesli. Jhisis perhaps the most important site in the wholereoion, as it forms
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