[9] Ghor signifies “a long valley between two mountains.” Refer to some of these volcanic indications, p. 122 of Dr Kitto's “Physical Geography of the Holy Land.” El Ghor, on the south of the Dead Sea, abounding in salt, is most probably “the valley of salt” mentioned in 2 Kings xiv. 7.
[10] See M. De Bertou's paper in the “Journal of the Royal Geographical Society,” vol. ix., p. 282.
[11] Strabo Geog., vol. ii., lib. 16-35, p. 1103. Edit. Falconer.
[12] Plin. Nat. Hist., Lib. vi. cap. 28.
[13] Isis is supposed to be the same as Io, and the island of Tiran is evidently, as I have already stated in a preceding note, that which Procopius names Ἰωταβη, Iotabe. This word is probably derived from Ἰοὺς τὰ ἄβατα,—the shrine, or sacred place, of Io.
[14] Travels in Arabia, vol. ii., p. 97.
[15] Bartlett's “Forty Days in the Desert,” p. 167.
[16] Mr J. Wilkinson on the Eastern Desert of Upper Egypt, p. 32, vol. ii. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.
[17] See the Views of the Convents of St Paul and St Anthony, plate 51, p. 128, chap. vi., book ii., vol. i., in Pococke's “Description of the East.”
[18] Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. ii. p. 39.