Les confirmations scientifiques de l'histoire de l'Ancien Testament . upies la partie inférieure d'une dépression étroite,ou nous pouvons l'appeler Canal (plusieurs kilomètres de qui arenow à sec), s'étendant jusqu'aux lacs amers, andthence sur jusqu'au lac Timsah, sur lequel est le presentcity d'Ismaïlia, qui occupe le site du probablement Étham des temps bibliques. Le canal de Suez a takenadvantage de cette dépression prolongée, et été en mesure, par une coupure peu profonde à travers la roche, qui est à point (près de Chaloof thehighest) vingt-sept pieds-abovesea niveau, pour connecter le golfe de Suez avec le largestof les lacs amers. Suite

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Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . upies the lower part of a narrow depression, or we may call it channel (several miles of which arenow dry), extending through to the Bitter Lakes, andthence on up to Lake Timsah, on which is the presentcity of Ismailia, which probably occupies the site ofthe Etham of biblical times. The Suez Canal has takenadvantage of this prolonged depression, and been able, by a shallow open cut through rock, which is at thehighest point (near Chaloof) twenty-seven feet abovesea-level, to connect the Gulf of Suez with the largestof the Bitter Lakes. Following this lake to its north-ern end, another cut through land, which is at Serapeumthirty feet above sea-level, brings it to Ismailia, uponthe northern end of Lake Timsah. Just north of thispoint occurs the deepest cut for the canal through aland surface, which is from seventy to eighty feet abovesea-level, and has been the passageway between Africaand Asia used by caravans and armies for thousands ofyears. Soon after leaving this last cut, the canal. The Exodus. 97 reaches the shallows of Lake Menzaleh, which stretchon the east to Pelusium, and a little beyond merge intothe famous Serbonian Bog. It thus appears that a subsidence of the land to theextent of a little more than thirty feet would cause thewater of the Gulf of Suez to extend to Ismailia, andstill leave the old land passage between Asia and Africaforty or fifty feet above sea-level, and would cover thehighest places at Serapeum and Chaloof to a depth ofonly a few feet. That there was such a depression in recent times isclear from both direct and indirect evidence. Duringthe present geological epoch the whole region aroundthe eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea has risenabout two hundred and fifty feet. Indubitable evi-dence of this may be seen near the summit of the iso-lated eroded cliff known to the Arabs as Het el-Orab, or the Crows Nest, about half a mile south of thepyramids at Gizeh, which is about the same level

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