Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... watched over their cities which were left alone. Eight leagues to the south of Bethlehem, one comes to Hebron, which is described above in chap. iii., and its position in Part VII., chap. ii. The position and state of the other places in the Holy Land may be found above, chap. iii. and iv. CHAPTER XII. The State Of The K1ngdom Of Egypt. Since enough has been said about Syria and the Promised Land, it is time to turn my pen toward Egypt. We marked the boundary of the Promised Land at Darum in chap. ii. Passing along the coast of Egypt, although in Book I., Part I., chap, xv., and more at large in Book II., Part IV., chap, xxv., mention has already been made of this same country, yet we may say that from Darum to Caput Beroaldi is thirty miles, and from thence to the bottom of the marsh, known as the Gulf of Rixa,1 is thirty miles, thence to the other end of the gulf is thirty miles, thence to Rasacasarom2 is fifty, and thence even to Pharamia3 is thirty miles. This city was once well fenced with walls, but afterwards was altogether taken possession of by serpents. From Pharamia to the river Tanis is twenty-five miles; but the city of Tanis is beyond the river some five-and-twenty miles above the lake. It is mentioned in Ps. lxxviii. 12, 'Marvellous things did He ... in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.'4 This 1 Possibly from Ostracine, at the west end of the Sabkhat Bardawtl. 7 Ras el Kasrun; Mount Casius. 3 Tell Fararna, the ancient Pelusium. Fuller (' Holy Warre, ' Bonk II., ch. xiii.) says that Pharamia was anciently called Rameses. Tanis in the Vulgate, now Tell San el Hajr. was where Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel dwelt, and is in the land of Goshen, whereof Joseph told his brethren and his father, saying, ...
