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IN the correspondence on this subject I have not noticed any reference to the noises said to be heard in the mountains of the peninsula of Sinai. In his “Sinai and Palestine” (ed. 1868, pp. 13, 14), the late Dean Stanley refers to “the mysterious noises which have from time to time been heard on the summit of Jebel Musa, in the neighbourhood of Um Shaumer, and in a mountain of Nakus or the Bell, so called from the legend that the sounds proceed from the bells of a, convent enclosed within the mountain. In this last instance the sound is supposed to originate in the rush of sand down the mountain side. … In the case of Jebel Musa, where it is said that the monks had originally settled on the highest peak, but were by these strange noises driven down to their present seat in the valley, and in the case of Um Shaumer, where it was described to Burckhardt as like the sound of artillery, the precise cause has never been ascertained.”
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FRY, E. Barisal Guns. Nature 54, 8 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054008b0
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