[150] It is no town, but some sand and a few bushes, so called.
[151] Ptol. Almag. lib. 4. Geograph. pag. 104.
[152] The Arabs call these narrow passes in the mountains Fum, as the Hebrews did Pi, the mouth. Fum el Beder, is the mouth of Beder; Fum el Terfowey, the mouth or passage of Terfowey; Piha Hhiroth, the mouth of the valley cut through with ravines.
[153] Ptolem. Geograph. lib. 4. p. 103.
[154] That is, I am under your protection.
[155] On the east coast of Arabia Felix, Syagrum Promontorium.
[156] Itin. Anton. a Carth. p. 4.
[157] So the next stage from Syené is called Hiera Sycaminos, a sycamore-tree, Ptol. lib. 4. p. 108.
[158] Plin. lib. xxxvii. cap. 5.
[159] Ditto.