{203} Pronounced sometimes _Dewan_, sometimes _Debwan_. {204} _Beth_ is represented by the modern word _Dair_, and _Aven_ has become _Ewan_, with the Syriac _d_' signifying _of_. {207} It is worthy of notice that Suwan (in Arabic) (diminutive, _Suwaineet_) signifies "flint." These rocks being flinty, it is possible that _Seneh_ in Hebrew may have had the same meaning. {217} 'Arabeh does not appear in any map before Vandevelde in 1854. {230} As Hebron, Bethshemesh, Gibeon, Shechem, Beth-horon, Ta'annuk, Jeneen, etc., besides the cities of refuge. {238} It is worthy of note, that in this single place the ancient name of Carmel is preserved among the people. This being called _Daliet el Carmel_ to distinguish it from the Dalieh of the Rohha district, yet the denomination Carmel is not otherwise given to this mountain by the Arab population. Dalieh signifies "a vine," this, therefore, is the "vine of Carmel," and Carmel itself signifies "God's vineyard!" {243} They afterwards dwindled to two families, the rest removing to Caiffa as that port rose in prosperity. {265} Shakespeare; or as Ronsard has it:-- "qui _tire l'ire_ Des esprits mieux que je n'ecris." {301} Yet there was a "city of palm-trees" towards the south, which the Kenites abandoned for this district south of Arad,--probably the present _Nukh'l_; the name has that signification. {302} There are many such _cachets_ of water in the desert, but known only to the tribes of each district. During the Israelitish wanderings, Hobab, a native of the desert, may have guided them to many such. {304} It is not to be supposed, however, that this is a just representation of all that "great and terrible wilderness" through which the Israelites were led for forty years. It is indeed "a land not sown," (Jer. ii. 2,) and a land of pits and drought fearful to contemplate, as a journey for a wandering population of nearly two millions of souls, especially in the hottest seasons of the year; but the peculiarly terrible wilderness must have been among the defiles, hemmed in by scorching cliffs in the Sinaitic peninsula. In that direction also were the "fiery flying serpents," concerning which I have never been able to learn anything more satisfactory than that, in the hot and unpeopled gorges west of the Dead Sea, there is a thin and yellow serpent called the Neshabiyeh, which flings itself across from one point to another in the air with astonishing velocity and force. It is therefore named after Neshabeh, a dart or arrow in Arabic. The natives also apply to it the epithet of "flying." The wound which it inflicts is said to be highly inflammatory and deadly, and from this effect it may be called "fiery." It may be also that, from being of a yellow colour, it may glitter like a flame when flying with rapidity in the sunshine.