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SINAI.
be able to question their authenticity.—It seems hard to turn away from Jebel Katanna! The
mountain culminates in three peaks, of which Jebel Zebir, eight thousand five hundred and
fifty-one feet above the sea (according to Arabic interpreters this name refers to " God
DEFILE OF THE JEBEL TIH.
The long white range of the Tin mountains, mostly of the same average height, forms the southern and south-eastern boundary of the great
" Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings."
speaking with Moses on the mount," being derived from a root which means " to write " or
"engrave"), is the highest point in the country; Jebel Katanna, so called from the legend
that St. Catherine of Alexandria was buried here by angels, being twenty-five feet lower.
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be able to question their authenticity.—It seems hard to turn away from Jebel Katanna! The
mountain culminates in three peaks, of which Jebel Zebir, eight thousand five hundred and
fifty-one feet above the sea (according to Arabic interpreters this name refers to " God
DEFILE OF THE JEBEL TIH.
The long white range of the Tin mountains, mostly of the same average height, forms the southern and south-eastern boundary of the great
" Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings."
speaking with Moses on the mount," being derived from a root which means " to write " or
"engrave"), is the highest point in the country; Jebel Katanna, so called from the legend
that St. Catherine of Alexandria was buried here by angels, being twenty-five feet lower.
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