i 882.| The Exploration of Palestine, 349 
Of the Great Map of Palestine (I.), it is impossible here to 
speak adequately. It shows the towns, villages, ruins, 
roads, watercourses, and buildings ; tombs, caves, cisterns, 
wells, springs, and rock-cut olive and wine-presses. Not 
only are the hills delineated, but their cultivation noted ; 
olives, figs, vines, palms distinguished ; the wild growth, 
oak-trees, scrub, and the principal separate trees, appear ; 
the Roman mile-stones on the roads are marked, and the 
many relics of antiquity ; the heights of the principal fea- 
tures of the country are given ; and the levels of the Sea of 
Galilee and of the Dead Sea have been fixed to within a 
foot. 
Nor is this all, for a special edition (II.) has been pre- 
pared, reduced from the one inch map to fths of an inch 
to the mile, illustrating the natural drainage and its divi- 
sions, and also the mountain ranges, according to the 
“ Introduction” of Mr. Saunders. The river basins are 
marked and coloured, with their water-partings, and the 
main water-parting of the Mediterranean and Jordan water- 
sheds. Even the minor basins, — those not extending to the 
main water-parting — and the small inland basins, also appear 
and are tinted. 
Vertical sections exhibit the natural profiles of the country, 
according to the variations of altitude above or below the 
level of the sea. The ranges, the mountains, and hills are 
shown in colour ; their heights projected on the meridional 
section, according to latitude, on the others according to 
longitude ; perennial streams distinguished from dry water- 
courses, roads from tracks ; nor is it without significance that 
we see the old Roman mile-stones side by side with the 
eleCtric telegraph and the trigonometrical stations. 
Thus has Palestine, so far as its western portion, been 
brought home to England by the Exploration Society, which 
has also now begun the same delineation eastward of the 
Jordan. Of the commencement of that further Eastern 
survey and exploration now in progress, we may hereafter 
give some account. 
We dismiss this valuable Map — in affluence of detail, and 
care for accuracy and identification, comparable only to a 
German military map — and this admirable “ Introduction,” 
with one remark as a corollary to what we have said. The 
Exploration Society have done for Palestine what is j^et 
wanting for England, where only of late are its rivers 
coloured blue on our Ordnance maps. We have increasing 
need to know the river-systems and the watersheds of our 
own country. Good as are now our coloured maps, they are 
