Our boy Sam was often careless with stated numbers, ages, dates, times. On 7/10/2020 3:06 PM, scott wrote: > The first two days of Mark Twain's Long Trip through Syria have me a > bit confused. They report departing Beirut on Wednesday at 3pm and > camping at Temnin al Faouqa by 6pm. That's a journey of 36 miles. > Fears has the first camp a mere 10 miles from Beirut, likely at > Broumanna. This require a second day journey to Zahlah, near Temnin al > Faouqa, of 24 miles. Then, an additonal 21.3 miles to Baalbek. > > If we have the pilgrims journey from Beirut to Temnin al Faouqa on the > first day, that journey would be 36 miles and likely require more than > 3 hours to do it in (3 pm to 6 pm? - not likely) > > If we have the pilgrims camp just ten miles from Beirut on the first > night, they would need to travel 45 miles on the second day. Again, > not likely. > > The party needs to be at Baalbek by Thursday in order to make sense of > the need to compress the three day required to reach Damascus into two > days (Friday and Saturday) in order for the pilgrims to "keep the > Sabbath". > > https://twainsgeography.com/content/innocents-journey-through-holy-land