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valley,* should be read by everyone desirous of becoming 
acquainted with the geognosy of these regions. The one-inch 
map of Western Palestine was published by the Committee of the 
Exploration Fund , in 1880, and there is a very useful reduction, * 
together with sections executed by Mr. Trelauney Saunders. Fig. 1 
is a reduction from a meridional section constructed by him. I 
ought to mention here also the Ordnance Survey of the P eninsula of 
Sinai, undertaken iu 1868-9, of which a most interesting account is 
given by the late Professor Palmer, in the first volume of the Desert 
of the Exodus. 
Though scarcely geological, the admirable volume of the late 
Dean Stanley, and the adventurous narratives of Canon Tristram 
contain much geognostic information, and as they are well illustrated 
and ably and pleasantly written, these works have always been in 
great favour with the English public. In concluding this part of the 
subject, I may remark that as far back as the year 1867, no less than 
eighteen hundred and sixty works were enumerated on the subject 
of Palestine, and they have increased portentously since then. It 
is true, that very few of these contain the smallest item of geologi- 
cal information, yet much has to be read in order to pick up the 
scanty morsels. The importance of M. Lartet’s works cannot be 
over-estimated. 
2. Physical Geography . — It will be necessary to consider the 
geography before attacking the geology. According to Captain 
Conder, the limits originally assigned by Moses to the Holy Land 
extended from Mount Hor on the south , to the water-parting of the 
two great Lebanon rivers, Orontes and Leontes, on the north ; and 
from the Mediterranean on the west ; in the direction of the Euphra- 
tes on the east. For our proposes we must exceed these limits on 
the south, so as to include the whole of the peninsula of Sinai. 
Without attempting to give it a general name, we shall take into 
consideration the whole country, from, say Baalbec, which is very 
near the aforesaid water-parting, to the most southerly part of the 
peninsula of Sinai ; the western boundary will be the Gulf of Suez^ 
and the line of the canal ; the eastern boundary stretches towards 
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