THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA.
» In the United Service Magazine for May, Major John, has an interesting article on " The Passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites," which was suggested to him by an experience of his own whe^ in Egypt : — " One day, when so employed between Port Baid and Kantara, a gale of wind from the eastward set in, and became so strong that I had to cease work. Next morning on going out, I found that Lake Menzaleh, which is situated on the west side of the Canal, had totally disappeared, the effect of the high wiud on the shallow- water having actually driven it away beyond the horizon, and the natives were walking about on the mud, where the day before fishing boats, now aground, had been floating." This set him thinking, and before long he came to the conclusion that he had witnessed precisely the same phenomenon which, three thousand years before had overwhelmed Pharaoh and his aremies. In this article he gives the result of his investigations.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 42, 17 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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174THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 42, 17 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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