SCRIPTURE TOPOGRAPHY; BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF PLACES MENTIONED IN HOLY SCRIPTURE, GIVEN PRINCIPALLY IN Extracts from the Works of Travellers. PALESTINE. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION, CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE; SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORIES: 77, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS; 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE; 16, HANOVER STREET, HANOVER SQUARE'; PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. SINCE the compilation of the "Scripture Topography of Palestine" a considerable number of valuable works have been published, containing a vast amount of information on the subject. It is to the end that use may be made of the new material which these recent works afford that a revised edition of the Topography is now published. The illustrations, moreover, with but four exceptions (those taken originally from photographs), are all new. They have been drawn with the utmost care and accuracy, from photographs taken by the Rev. A. A. Isaacs, and thus afford a reliable and truthful pictorial guide to the Holy Land. The traveller will find the work in its present form a useful and interesting Handbook in journeying through the country. |