The reader must remember that the name Horeb is used interchangeably with Sinai,

and while Horeb is applied as a name to the whole peninsula, Sinai is reserved as a name

for the mountain itself.

Had the Exodus covered a district that had remained thickly inhabited, the chance that

any possibility of following the itinerary after so many centuries would be practically nil.

As it happens, Sinai is a desolation, and has been for a lengthy period, and so the route

taken by Israel over 2,000 years ago is still perceptible.