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Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 2 of 3: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural History; Kabzeel-Red-Heifer Almost any probable situation for Kadesh on the grounds of the Scriptural narrative, is equally op posed to the impression derived from the aspect of the region thereabouts. No spot perhaps, in the locality above indicated, could now be an eligible site for the host of the Israelites for many days. Je romespeaksof it as a desert in his day, and makes no allusion to any city there, altho h the tomb of Miriam, of which no modern trav or has found any vestige, had there its traditional site. It is possible that the great volume of water which in the rainy season sweeps b the great el-jeib and other wadys into the S. Corner of the Ghor, might, if duly husbanded, have once created an arti ficial oasis, of which, with the neglect of such in dustry, every trace has since been lost. But, as no attempt is made here to fix on a definite site for Kadesh as a city, it is enough to observe that the objection a plies in nearly equal force to nearly all solutions 0 the question of which the Scriptural narrative admits. (h. IL. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.