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Where did Philip baptize the Ethiopian eunuch?

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Philip met an Ethiopian eunuch and expounded to him a passage of the Scripture in Acts 8:

36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” 38And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.
Where was this body of water?

Pulpit cited Robinson:

"When we were at Tell-el-Hasy, and saw the water standing along the bottom of the adjacent wady, we could not but remark the coincidence of several circumstances with the account of the eunuch's baptism. This water is on the most direct road from Belt Jibrin (Eleutheroplis) to Gaza, on the most southern road from Jerusalem, and in the midst of a country now 'desert,' i.e. without villages or fixed habitations. There is no other similar water on this road" (Robinson,' Bibl. Res.,' vol. it. p. 345).
Matthew Poole suggested this:

A certain water; this water is supposed to be a fountain in a town called Bethsora, or a river called Eleutherus, which in that road must needs be passed over; it being otherwise very dry, and water very scarce there.
Another possibility is that it was a miracle. God showed Hagar and Ismael water in Genesis 21:

19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.