ROUTE OF THE EXODUS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10105, 17 March 1911, Page 2

ROUTE OF THE EXODUS.

Mr Villiers-Stuart solids a note to the "Egyptian Gazette" concerning the possible route taken by Moses and the Israelites on the exodus from Egypt. "During a recent journey in Sinai," he writes, "I visited the sandbar separating Lake Bardawil from the Mediterranean. It extends for some seventy-five kilometres (forty-seven miles) along the northern coast of Sinai ; and would form a good route for a retreating army encumbered, with women and children, as was the case with the Israelites during the exodus. A small rearguard could hold the narrow sand-bar against a pursuing army, while the flanks would be protected by the lake on the right and the sea on the left, which, is my interpretation of the passage in Exodus, ' The waters were a wall unto them on th© right hand and on the left.' Pieces of wreckage, both of iron and of wood, are embedded in the crest of this sand-bar, showing that it is awash during a gale, p the Egyptian army had been caught by a gale on the sand-bar, the surf would have drowned such as did not succeed in retreating from it in time. 'Red Sea' in the Bible is more correctly translated ' Sea of Weeds.' Some of the authorities consider Lake _Menzaleh to be meant, but the lake is too shallow to drown anyone. The wind only affects the depth by a few inches. The only marked, rise is during the Nile flood." .