Proceedings. 87 



vicinity of Old Trafiford, whereas the birds formerly seen at 

 Peel Park were only passing visitors. 



Mr. Charles Bailey exhibited a map of Palestine, 

 constructed in relief on the scale of tt^Wtf (^ of a mile to 

 to 1 inch), recently issued by the Palestine Exploration 

 Fund, and read the following note on the exhibit : — 



" Having acquired a copy of a raised map of Palestine 

 for use in Sunday School teaching, I have thought it would 

 interest the members of our Society to exhibit so fine a 

 piece of workmanship. It represents the results, physically 

 expressed, of some of the labours of the Palestine Explora- 

 tion Fund, which was established 1st October, 1865. The 

 actual survey of the country began on the 21st November, 

 1 87 1, by the measurement of a base line on the plain 

 between er Ramleh and Ludd, not far from the track of the 

 modern railway line. At that date the only accurate map of 

 the country consisted of its coast-line, as laid down on the 

 Admiralty charts. The features of the interior were only 

 known on broad lines ; perhaps the best map of the period 

 was that by Lieutenant C. W. M. van de Welde, on the 

 scale of 3iTbiro> published in 1858, now exhibited to the 

 members, and by comparing any portion of it with the 

 Tes^eo scale map of the Palestine Exploration Fund, we are 

 better able to judge of the relative accuracy and amount of 

 the topographical details. When that map was issued we 

 did not know the exact altitude of Jerusalem above the 

 Mediterranean, nor the depressions of the Dead Sea and 

 the Sea of Galilee below it ; and in spite of the patient 

 labours of Robinson and others, it was remarkable how few 

 Biblical sites had been determined. Now, all this has been 

 completely changed by the publications of the Fund, and 

 the whole has been accomplished for a sum which has not 

 yet reached £100,000, voluntarily subscribed by the public. 



" The large map of Palestine on the one-inch scale = -g- 3^g~o> 

 published by the Fund in the year 1880 in 26 sheets, is the 



