PIIE FACE. 
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As regards recent Eastern discovery, it is satisfactory to note 
fclie remarkable results of tlie labours of that highly-trained 
Egyptologist, M. Naville, in the discovery of Succoth ; also the 
results of Professor HulPs geological work along the Gulfs 
of Suez and Akaba, which “have induced him to be of 
opinion that at the time of the Exodus there was a con- 
tinuous connexion of the j Bitter Lakes l and the Bed Sea.” 
It is again impossible to conclude without giving expression 
to a feeling of regret that Eastern exploration continues, both 
in Babylonia and Palestine, to be at a standstill, by reason 
of the Porte still withholding the firmans once accorded to 
our Government, and under which such important discoveries 
have been made. 
FRANCIS W. H. PETRIE, 
Hon. See. and Editor. 
31st December, 1883. 
