11. Jerom, tom. i. p. 146, ad Eustochium [Ep. 22, p. 119,
ed. Vall.], Hist. Lausiac. c. 7, in Vit. Patrum, p. 712 [p.
982]. The P. Sicard (Missions du Levant, tom. ii. p. 29-79)
visited and has described this desert, which now contains
four monasteries, and twenty or thirty monks. See D'Anville,
Description de l'Egypte, p. 74.