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ADDITIONAL NOTICES. 
[May 10, 1858. 
Jerusalem — then to Nazareth and Mount Tabor — by the Lake of Tiberias (N.) 
to Safed — from Safed (N.W. and N.) by Tyre and Sidon to Beirut — and thence 
homeward by way of Smyrna, Alexandria, Constantinople, and Vienna. 
In his preface to the present edition Professor Robinson states : “ The cor- 
rections and additions to the original work are few, but not unimportant. 
Notes have been added at the end of vol. 1 on the position of Israel at Sinai, 
on Jebel Serbal, and on the Sinaitic inscriptions. Ancient Geba is now iden- 
tified with Jeba’ ; Gibeah of Benjamin is recognised at Tuleil-el-Ful ; while 
Ophrah, Ephron , and Ephraim , as being probably one and the same, are fixed 
at Tayibeh. The historical evidence is also given of the identity of Eleuthe- 
ropolis with Beit-Jibrin ; and a new marginal note enumerates the reasons for 
not seeking Kadesh-barnea in the high western desert.” With this information, 
then, may be dismissed in this place the first two volumes of the new edition, 
which, as the author with just gratification and absolute truth remarks, “ have 
been permitted to take rank as a standard work in relation to the Holy Land.’’ 
Of the contents of the third volume, an abstract appears in the twenty-fourth 
volume of our Journal (1854), accompanied by a map, upon which the route 
travelled over is very distinctly laid down. This is a great advantage in maps 
and plans intended to indicate the proceedings of travellers. The maps be- 
longing to the present edition of Professor Robinson’s work are by Kiepert, of 
Berlin. Although most elaborately drawn and beautifully executed, especially 
as regards the physical geography, they are somewhat too crowded to exhibit 
clearly on their comparatively limited scale the names of places and the route 
which the author pursued. Starting from Beirut, where his previous re- 
searches had terminated, Professor Robinson in this, his second tour, went 
southward along the coast to Sidon ; thence, striking inland through Galilee to 
’Akka (Acre), he visited in this route Tibnin, Rameh, Meiron, &c., at all of 
which places striking remains of antiquity are to be found. Of ’Akka the 
author gives an extended description and historical notice. Thence he con- 
tinued, still for the most part southward, through Galilee and Samaria to 
Jerusalem, by way of Kana (Cana of Galilee), Seffurieh, across the Plain of 
Esdraelon, and along the eastern side of Mount Carmel, to Nabulus (Nablous). 
In this part of his work some curious details respecting the Samaritan population 
and their ancient books are added to what the author had stated in a previous 
volume. Lydda, Yalo (Ajalon), and ’Amwas (Emmaus), lay in this portion of 
the journey. More than a hundred pages are occupied with highly interesting 
observations made at Jerusalem, in the course of which many important 
points in topography and archaeology are determined, or brought under review. 
From the Holy City excursions were made* on the west and south ; in the latter 
direction as far as Hebron. Leaving Jerusalem on the north for Beisan (Beth- 
shean, or Scythopolis) , the travellers took in their way Akrabeh, Nabulus a 
second time, Tubas (the Tliebez of Scripture), a portion of the “ Ghor,” or 
valley of the Jordan, and Sakut, which, in the opinion of Professor Robinson, 
after a consideration of various authorities, “ represents the name and site of 
the ancient Succoth.” Before reaching Beisan the party forded the Jordan, in 
order to visit on its east side the ruin ed-Deir, probably the Jabeth-Gilead of 
Scripture, and also Fahil, which the writer has been the first to identify by 
observation * with Pella, whither the Christians of Jerusalem withdrew previous 
to the destruction of that city by Titus. 
* Professor Robinson states (iii. 323) that Irby and Mangles were the disco- 
verers of the ruins here, but that no Frank traveller had since visited the spot. 
Kiepert had already proposed to insert the name Pella in the maps, before the 
second journey of our author. The latter adds, “ It was not done, however ; 
because I desired that the maps should contain nothing which had not been 
actually verified : but in Kiepert’s own later map, published in 1842, Pella was 
thus inserted for the first time, with a query.” 
