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of Hebron was visited, and an accurate plan taken by Captain Conder. 

 The party also spent a week on the eastern side of the Jordan. 



Captain Conder retired from the country on May 22 of this year. 

 Before leaving Palestine he received notice from His Excellency the British 

 Ambassador that the new firman had been finally approved by the 

 Minister of Public Instruction, and submitted by him to the Porte for 

 confirmation. He has brought home with him the finished map, on the 

 scale of 1 inch to the mile, of 500 square miles, together with many 

 new photographs taken by Lieutenant Mantell, and volumes of notes, 

 special plans, drawings, &c. He is now occupied in working up for 

 publication the notes and information collected by him. This will 

 occupy him about five months. 



The results of this campaign have been, among other things, the dis- 

 covery of a vast number of cromlechs and rude stone monuments. Many 

 of them had been discovered previously by Canon Tristram, but Captain 

 Conder has established the fact that this part of Moab was a great centre 

 of the form of religious worship of which these monuments are the 

 remains. He suggests that among them are the altars of Balak. He has 

 proposed identifications for Baal Peor, the Field of Zophim, the Ascent of 

 Luhith, Jazer, Sibmah, and Minnith — six Biblical places previously un- 

 known ; he has collected a great quantity of Arab folk-lore, with tribe 

 marks and traditions ; he has found a most remarkable building of 

 Persian character at Amman ; and he has made a collection of sketches 

 and plans of the greatest value. In fact, the work done on the east of the 

 Jordan will be found to be in every way equal to that done in the west and 

 already published. He has also made numerous geological observations. 

 But besides the survey. Captain Conder found time to do a great deal of 

 work on this side of the river. He discovered Kadesh, the ancient capital 

 of the Hittites ; he has measured and planned the Siloam tunnel, and 

 made a copy of the inscription ; and he has discovered and planned what 

 he suggests may be nothing less than the real Holy Sepulchre. 



It is hoped that the pai-ty may again before long take the field, with- 

 out fear of obstruction or opposition, in a work which has no political 

 significance, but is of extraordinary interest to all who are interested in 

 the lands and people of the Bible. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Leone Levi, 

 Mr. Stephen Bourne, Dr. Hancock, the late Sir Antonio Brady, 

 the late Professor Jevons, Mr. F. P. Fellows, Mr. E. J. 

 Watherston, Mr. Pearson Hill, Mr. G-eorge Baden Powell, 

 and Mr. Jeremiah Head, appointed for the purpose of con- 

 tinuing the inquiry into and completing the report upon the 

 Appropriation of Wages and other sources of income, and con- 

 sidering hotu far it is consonant ivith the economic progress of 

 the United Kingdom. Drawn up by Professor Leone Levi. 



The question, whether or not, or how far, the present appropriation of 

 wages and other sources of income is consonant with the economic 

 progress of the people of the United Kingdom, is one of considerable 



