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SINAI.
347
■Hi
is
slabs of granite, winding amidst
tremendous masses of fallen
rock, mighty peaks, and tower-
ing precipices. After a climb
of four hundred feet a shady grotto is
reached, in which is the Ma'yan Miisa,
" Spring of Moses "—as the Arabs call it
—but noticed by the monks merely as
the home of a cobbler hermit, St.
Stephanos. Another climb, and we come
to a narrow platform on which is set the Chapel of the
Virgin of the GEconomos, with its well-known legend. At
this point the ravine is crossed, and far above us is seen
the cypress which stands by Elijah's Chapel. A long mountains at the head of vvady leja.
347
■Hi
is
slabs of granite, winding amidst
tremendous masses of fallen
rock, mighty peaks, and tower-
ing precipices. After a climb
of four hundred feet a shady grotto is
reached, in which is the Ma'yan Miisa,
" Spring of Moses "—as the Arabs call it
—but noticed by the monks merely as
the home of a cobbler hermit, St.
Stephanos. Another climb, and we come
to a narrow platform on which is set the Chapel of the
Virgin of the GEconomos, with its well-known legend. At
this point the ravine is crossed, and far above us is seen
the cypress which stands by Elijah's Chapel. A long mountains at the head of vvady leja.