are of opinion that Mount Serbal was the mountain of
revelation. There are authorities who maintain that Horeb
was the name of the whole mountain range, Sinai being the
individual mountain; others think that Horeb designated the
northern range and Sinai the southern range. See Dr.
Robinson's _Biblical Researches_, vol. I, section iii: also
articles _Sinai_ in Cheyne's _Encyclopaedia Biblica_ and
Dean Stanley's _Sinai and Palestine_.]

[Footnote 202: The monastery of St. Catherine was erected
2,000 feet below the summit of Jebel Musa. It was founded by
Justinian to give shelter to the numerous Syrian hermits who
inhabited the peninsula. The monastery was presided over by
an Archbishop.]

[Footnote 203: The passage in square brackets is inserted
from the Oxford MS. The city of Tur, which Benjamin calls
Tur-Sinai, is situated on the eastern side of the Gulf of
Suez, and affords good anchorage, the harbour being
protected by coral reefs. It can be reached from the
monastery in little more than a day. The small mountain
referred to by Benjamin is the Jebel Hammam Sidna Musa, the
mountain of the bath of our lord Moses.]

[Footnote 204: Tanis, now called San, was probably the Zoan
of Scripture, but in the Middle Ages it was held to be
Hanes, mentioned in Isa. xxx. 4. It was situated on the
eastern bank of the Tanitic branch of the Nile, about thirty
miles south-west of the ancient Pelusium. The excavations
which have been made by M. Mariette and Mr. Flinders Petrie
prove that it was one of the largest and most important
cities of the Delta. It forms the subject of the Second
Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1885. The place must
not be confounded with the seaport town Tennis, as has been
done by Asher. In the sixth century the waters of the Lake
Menzaleh invaded a large portion of the fertile Tanis
territory. Hence Benjamin calls it an island in the midst of
the sea. In a Geniza document dated 1106, quoted by Dr.
Schechter, _Saadyana_, p. 91, occurs the passage: [Hebrew:]
"In the city of the isle Hanes, which is in the midst of the
sea and of the tongue of the river of Egypt called Nile."]

[Footnote 205: The straits of Messina were named Faro. Lipar
has reference, no doubt, to the Liparian Islands, which are
in t