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A memoir has also been prepared by the survey officers to accom- 
pany each of the 26 sheets of the one-inch map, and this great collec- 
tion of notes is now going through the press under the editorship of 
Col. Wilson, R.E., whose absence on special duty in Anatolia has, 
however, unfortunately delayed the publication. 
The memoir is divided into four sections. The first descriptive 
of the country, its natural features, its towns and villages, with 
special notes on the ancient history of the various sites. The 
second section deals with the archaeology of the sheet, every ruin 
being described, with accompanying plans and sketches. The third 
section consists of translated name indexes, giving the Arabic 
lettering and the connection of ancient with modern names. The 
fourth section includes notes on the ethnology of the sheets. Special 
papers on the physical geography, architecture, nomenclature, and 
archaeology of the various districts, on the geology of the country 
and on the ethnological peculiarities of the natives, will, it is hoped, 
be added, and the whole memoir will probably exceed 1000 pages 
quarto of print, with more than 100 special plans and surveys. 
Some account may now be desirable of the history of the under- 
taking, which was not free from vicissitudes, and of the most 
interesting results of the exploration apart from the survey map 
itself. 
Leaving the well-watered vale of Shechem on the 16th August 
1872, the survey party proceeded northwards, and in September 
encamped at Jenin on the south edge of the great plain of Jezreel 
or Esdraelon — a plateau divided from the Jordan valley by the 
ridge of Gilboa, and from the plain of Sharon by the spur which runs 
north-west to the Carmel promontory. In this plain the second or 
check base was measured, and a new triangulation extended from it 
in a very satisfactory manner. The hills round Nazareth were sur- 
veyed during the autumn months, and the party wintered safely 
in the German colony at Haifa under the slope of Carmel. 
Several instances of molestation occurred during this campaign 
to different members of the party, the most serious being an assault 
on Sergeant Black by the young men of a village, who were firing 
at a mark, but sent several bullets in an opposite direction, which 
fell at the sergeant’s feet as he was taking angles. These offenders 
were, however, punished by fine and imprisonment. 
