more complete than that given by Asher, who enumerates but twenty-eight Christian states in lieu of forty given in the British Museum MS. In some cases the readings of R and O, which appear to have been written by careful scribes, and are of an older date than E and the printed editions, have been adopted.  In our text, through the ignorance of the scribe, who had no gazetteer or map to turn to, some palpable errors have crept in.  For instance, in naming Amalfi, already mentioned on p. 9, the error in spelling it [Hebrew:] has been repeated.  Patzinakia (referred to on p. 12, as trading with Constantinople) is there spelt [Hebrew:] not [Hebrew:]. [Hebrew:] may be read [Hebrew:]; I have rendered it Hainault in accordance with Deguigne’s Memoir, referred to by Asher.  Maurienne (mentioned p. 79) embraced Savoy and the Maritime Alps.  It was named after the Moors who settled there.]

     [Footnote 199:  Simasin or Timasin is doubtless near Lake
     Timsah.  Sunbat is spoken of by Arabic writers as noted for
     its linen manufactures and trade.]

[Footnote 200:  Elim has been identified with Wadi Gharandel.  It is reached in two hours from the bitter spring in the Wadi Hawara, believed to be the Marah of the Bible.  Burckhardt conjectures that the juice of the berry of the gharkad, a shrub growing in the neighbourhood, may have the property, like the juice of the pomegranate, of improving brackish water; see p. 475, Baedecker’s Egypt, 1879 edition.  Professor Lepsius was responsible for the chapter on the Sinai routes.]

[Footnote 201:  A journey of two days would bring the traveller to the luxuriant oasis of Firan, which ancient tradition and modern explorers agree in identifying as Rephidim.  From Firan it is held, by Professor Sayce and others, that the main body of the Israelites with their flocks and herds probably passed the Wadi esh-Shekh, while Moses and the elders went by Wadi Selaf and Nakb el-Hawa.  The final camping-ground, at which took place the giving of the Law, is supposed to be the Raha plain at the foot of the peak of Jebel Musa.  It may be mentioned that some explorers 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