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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 112, December 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 112, December 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Vol. IV.—No. 112. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 112.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
Wady Mokatteb identified with Kibroth Hattavah, by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth 481
On a Passage in Goldsmith, by Henry H. Breen 482
Minor Notes:—Biographical Dictionary—The Word Premises—Play of George Barnwell—Traditions from Remote Periods through few Links 483
QUERIES:—
Deodands and their Application, by Jonathan Peel 484
Minor Queries:—Hell paved with the Skulls of Priests—Charib—Thumb Bible—Tripos—Louis Philippe and his Bag of Nails—Brass Statues at Windsor—Edmund Bohun—Bishop Trelawney 484
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Companion Ladder—Macaulay's Ballad of the Battle of Naseby 485
REPLIES:—
The Crucifix as used by the Early Christians, by J. Emerson Tennent 485
The Word "Ἀδελφὸς," by T. R. Brown 486
The Roman Index Expurgatorius of 1607 487
Replies to Minor Queries:—Hobbes's "Leviathan"—Age of Trees—Treatise against Equivocation—Lycian Inscriptions—Alterius Orbis Papa—Carmagnoles—General James Wolfe—Johannes Trithemius—Sir William Herschel—Dr. Wm. Wall—Parish Registers—Compositions during the Protectorate—General Moyle—Descendants of John of Gaunt—Church of St. Bene't Fink—Coins of Vabalathus—Engraved Portrait—"Cleanliness is next to godliness"—Cozens the Painter—Whig and Tory—Prince Rupert's Drops—Deep Well near Bansted Downs—Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke—Upton Court 487
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 493
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 494
Notices to Correspondents 494
Advertisements 494
Notes.
WADY MOKATTEB IDENTIFIED WITH KIBROTH HATTAVAH.
The difficulty of deciding the antiquity of the famous inscriptions in the deserts of Arabia, would be considerably diminished if we could ascertain the earliest mention of the valley now known as Wady Mokatteb. What I am about to submit to the readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES", is not a presumptuous or rash suggestion, but an idea diffidently entertained, and cautiously and maturely considered.
It is not at all improbable that that valley, with its surrounding rocky chronicles, was first mentioned by Moses, the first delineator of the "great wilderness." The mention I allude to is to be found in Numbers, xi. 26. The passage, as it occurs in the English version, runs thus:
"But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other was Medad; and the Spirit rested upon them, and they were of them that were written."
The original words of the last clause are but the two following:—
וְהֵמָה בַּכְּתוּבִים
which literally signify, "and they were amongst the inscriptions."
A personal and literary examination of the locality of the Sinaitic inscriptions convinces me that Eldad and Medad were then in that famous region. By a reference to the chapter alluded to, it will be found that the children of Israel were then at that awfully memorable place called Kibroth Hattavah (ver. 34.), and no one, who has but a slight knowledge of scripture topography, will be at a loss to observe that it is the very spot where the mysterious inscriptions are found.
Dr. Robinson, in his Biblical Researches, vol. i. p. 138., thus notices the subject in question:
"The Sinaite inscriptions are found on all the routes which lead from the West towards Sinai, above the convent El-Arbain, but are found