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National Geographic : 1909 Dec
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THE ROUTE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL A CURIOUS BIT OF WIND CARVING IN THE DESERT OF SINAI deny that the inspired writers had the Sinai region in mind at all. Nothing could be more gratuitous and farther from the truth. The Bible writers plainly knew that country as well as George Washington ever knew the coun try between Boston and Yorktown, and the writer, after 26 years in Bible lands and many journeys into these more re mote portions, would record his convic tion that the geography of the Bible fits the land as the key fits the lock, and each succeeding generation of men will realize this more clearly. THE ROUTE OF THE EXODUS The Bible record is complete as to the route of the Exodus, but many fail to realize this because the history of the journey is scattered through six of the Old Testament books, the record chang ing back and forth from one place to another nearly Ioo times. Mr W. S. Auchincloss, C. E., in his little booklet "To Canaan in One Year" * has made a scholarly and valuable contribution to the problem of the Exodus in assembling and harmonizing all the Bible references and illustrating the route by an itinerary map. In order to bring out the names of the places with greater clearness he has omitted the mountain ranges and gorges, but "in plotting the line of march both their location and the gradients overcome have been carefully taken into account; hence the course shown is topographically correct." This map and accompanying letter-press was one of the most valuable books of reference that we carried with us into the wilderness. In general it may be said that the first section of the route from Raamses to Sinai is known perfectly and the recovery of most of the ancient names simply a matter of time. The fourth and last sec tion of the route from Elath, on the Gulf of Akaba, to Jericho is also well * D. Van Nostrand Co., Murray street, New York. 1019
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