Of the latter, some are the _volcanic_ phenomena apparent around the Dead Sea and El Ghor,[9] on the north; in the basaltic cliffs and creeks nearly opposite the Isle of Kureiyeh; the frequent displacements of strata and rocks in many places on the north-west side of the Gulf of Akaba; the coincidences exhibited by the strata in the Isle of Tiran, with those of the Arabian and Sinaic shores; and the volcanic remains and crater-like hills between them and Sherm on the south. Moreover, it may be collected from Scripture, that certain _changes_ had actually been _effected_ in the vicinity of the _Dead Sea_ (Gen. xix. 25); and that they were caused by _fire_ (_Ibid._ xxiv. 28); if then, at that period, the southern part of the valley of the Jordan, the plain of the Dead Sea, and El Ghor had, through igneous, or volcanic, or other agency, _sunk_ much _below_ their former levels, it is possible that a corresponding _elevation_ of the land in _Wadi-el-Araba_ might have taken place at the same (or perhaps at another) time, by the same (or by a subsequent similar) agency. Footnote 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. Again, it seems probable from Scripture, that the _Dead Sea_ and _Wadi-el-Araba_ had been once continued, or more connected in their levels; because in Joshua iii. 16, and xii. 3, the former is called "the _sea of the plain_ (even) the Salt Sea;" and in Deut. iv. 49, only "the _sea of the plain_;" the original Hebrew expression in all three verses is, "Yam ha Arabah;" that is, the _Sea of the Araba_; and the Septuagint renders it hê thalassa Araba. "Ha Arabah," in Hebrew, signifies the same as _El Arabah_ in Arabic--a "desert-plain," or a "plain." So, likewise, we find in Deut. ii. 8, "the children of Edom" described as dwelling "in Seir, through the way of the _Plain_ from Elath, and from Eziongaber;" the Hebrew and Greek words for _the plain_ are here also the same, viz., "_Arabah_." Consequently, these passages from Scripture, shewing that _both extremes_, north and south, of this great _plain_ or _Wadi_, bore the _same_ appellation, prove that it was esteemed one _entire_ valley in its _whole extent_, from the Dead, or Salt Sea, to Elath and Eziongaber on the Red Sea, or Ælanitic Gulf, in the land of Edom (1 Kings ix. 26, and 2 Chron. viii. 17.) And, indeed, according to Dr Robertson, _no_ such _division_ of it, as _M. De Bertou_ and some other travellers assert, into _Wadi-el-Akaba_, and _Wadi-el-Araba_,[10] at this day exists. Footnote 10: See _M. De Bertou's_ paper in the "Journal of the Royal Geographical Society," vol. ix., p. 282.