PREFACE TO FIRST SECTION 
the boundaries of Palcestine, begins by marking 
a line of separation between that country and 
Phoenice '. 
Among later writers, some have extended 
the boundaries of Palestine, and others have 
circumscribed the limits of Syria. D'Anville* 
considers the former as including the whole 
of Phoenice, with all the western side of Anti- 
Lihanus and Herman; and Mentelle, editor 
of the j4ntient Geography publislied in the 
French Encydopedie, confines the latter to that 
part of Asia which has — the Mediterranean on 
the west; Mount Taurus, the river EuphrateSy 
and a small portion of Arabia, on the east ; and 
the Land of Judcea, or Palcestine, on the soiuh\ 
D'Anville had considered Juda-a merely as 
a province of Palcestine. In fact, the several 
additions to the number of observations pub- 
lished concerning this part of Asia seem rather 
to have increased than diminished the uncer- 
tainty respecting the geography of the country. 
** Tanta est,'' says Seldex, '' inter profanas et 
sacras liter as in regionum Jinilus discrepantia. 
(1) "Palsestina cZ«?^f/<7M7- a Septentrione Phcenice." Cluvei: Geog. 
lib. V. e. 20. p. 588. Amst. 1729. 
(2) Voy. Carte tie la Pulastine, par H' Anville. Par. 1767. 
(3) EnKvclop. Mt'thodique, Geog. Aik-. tor.i. III. P«r. 17D2. 
