The Mount of Moses.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

The Mount of Moses.

Mount Sinai is an immense block, isolated from the surrounding mountj»ins by deep valleys, so that it would bo an easy task to set bounds round it, and prevent persons from making the ascent," The "nether end of the mountain" is a magnificent bluff, rising precipitously from the plain, truly a "mount which might be touched." In front of this stretches a broad plain, which ha.? .been ascertained by Captain" H. S. Palmer, *8.E., from the actual measurements of the Ordnance Survey, to be capablo of containing over a million of spectators. The highest summit of the mountain is completely hidden from this secluded peak. Moses might well have remained tor forty clays until the people " wot not what had beconfe of him." The, Ai-abs hero show the traditional spot in which the (Law was delivered to Moses ; from the lower peak, overlooking the plain, the Law-giver of Israel must have proclaimed the Commandments of God to the expectant hosts assembled underneath. The distance from Egypt to Jebel Musa exactly accords with the number of stations or days' journey mentioned in the Bible; the physical aspect of the mountain and its surroundings exactly answer the description given in the Bible -of the Mountain of the Law ; and traditions of the event recorded in the Bible still linger in the tales which the untutored Arabs tell to their children over their camp-fires.