PHILADELPHIA, October 13.—A
vivid picture of travel in the wllder
• ness of Sinai, where the children of
• Israel wandered for 40 years, and the
, details of his discovery of the site of
Kadesh-Barnea, where Moses struck
water from the rock, were given to
, the Associated Press yesterday by Dr.
. William T. Ellis, traveler and writer,
• at his home in Swarthmore.
Dr. Ellis said he had not set out
■ to discover Kadesh-Barnea, or any
i other site.
“Mrs. Ellis and I were spending 10
( months of intensive travel over the
entire area of Bible lands, a feat
> never before performed, in order to
; w'rite a book,” he said. “We had
done the Bible scenes of Italy, Gi*eece,
i Turkey and most of Palestine.
"Becavise mid-Sinai bulks so large
in the Old Testament we had to go
. there also. Our objective was Ain
s Kadeis, which appears upon all
Biblical maps and In all Bible dlction
• aries as the site of Kadesh-Barnea.
Site at Desert Cross Roads.
“It will fix the site of Kadesh
■ Barnea, the pivotal place of Israel’s
desert experiences, w'hence the 12
spies were sent northw'ard into Ca
naan; where Miriam died, and where
Moses struck the rock and produced
a flow' of water for the thirsty and
complaining children of Israel, if I
say that it is at the ancient cross
roads of mid-Sinai, in the center of
the peninsula, and right at the pres
ent border between Palestine and
, Egypt.
1 “Ain Kadeis is on the Egyptian side
’ of the line, and Ain Guderat Is on
1 the Palestine side of the line. The
tw'O valleys, or wadis, are only about
25 miles apart.
