The One Primeval Language traced experimentally through Ancient Inscriptions in Alphabetic Characters, of Lost Powers, from the four Continents. By the Rev. Charles Forster, B. D. London: 1851. Part I. The Voice of Israel from the Rocks of Sinai, or the Sinaitic Inscriptions Contemporary Records of the Miracles and Wanderings of the Exode. 8vo, pp. 182. Sinai Photographed, or Contemporary Records of Israel in the Wilderness. By the Rev. Charles Forster, B. D. London: 1862. 4to, pp. 552. [pp. 533-565]

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IT is well ~nown that tlie valleys in tlie neghboHiood of
~1oiint Sin ii contain iI~seriptions in an ancient and peenliar
cliart~cter, wltic}~ have long been a pnzzle to tiie learned. Tlie
earliest lnention of tiieiii is by Cosinas Iiidicoplei~stes, or the
Iiidian Nav~gator, an Egyptian i~ercbant and traveller, and
slibseqncntly a n~onk, wlio flounshed in tlie reign of ~ustinian,
about A. D. 535 In his work entitled "Christian Topogra
pily,' lie speaks of these inscriptions, and attributes then~ to
tlie chi}drei~ of Israel, dnring fl~eir wanderings ill the. wilderl~ess. ~Ve translate tlie entire passage, as qnoted by Beer, and
copied froin him by Forster
"As they had received the law from God in writing, and recently been taught
letters, God made use, as it were, of a quiet school in the desert, and permitted
them to carve letters in stone for forty years. AVilence it is to be seen that in
this desert of Ioniit Sinai, at every halting-place, all the stones which are brokeii from tlie mountains are inscribed with engraved Ilebrew letters, as I who
have gone through these localities on foot can testify. Some Jews, who rend
them and explained them to me, said that tl~e ~~~~ih.ng was to this purport: tlie
jotirney of Se OC(1 SQ of such a tribe, in sudi a year, and such a month, as among
us niso people often write in foreign parts. Now, inasmuch as they lied but
lately learned their letters, they were incessantly practising and wrote profusely,
so that all those places are filled with carved llebrew letters, which have been
preserved to this present time, as I suppose, for the sake of unbelievers. Any
one who pleases can go to this region and see for himself or at least can ask
and learn that we have told the truth about it. Tlie llehrews, then, having first
of
bern in. trncted God, in fi~at they received letters by tliose tables of stone, and
then learned them forty years in the ~~ilderness, delivered them to their neigh.
bars. the Phoenicians, to Cadmus, first king of Tyre; from him the Greeks received them and after that they were successively transmitted to all the other
nations in their turn."