OF PART THE SECOND. ' xi 
Neque in Syrice duntaxat nomine, sed in Judcece et 
Palcestinte. Jud(Fos, ut par est, sen Ehrceos a 
Palcestinis ubique separamus, ita et Scriptura. Sed 
Ploleinao, Straboni, Tacito, Syria Palcestina eadem 
ipsa est, quce Judcea : aliis diversce sunt ; sic Ebrcei a 
Palcestinis disterminantur\'" This discrepancy 
characterizes even the writings of the learned 
Cellarius, who, at an earUer period, opened 
his treatise D3 Syria with marlcs of the 
indecision perplexing the sources of his infor- 
mation \ Dr. Wells, in his " Historical 
Geography of the Old and New Testament," 
restricts Syria within much narrower limits 
than those assigned for it by Mentelle; 
excluding all Phoenice and the Holy Land. 
*^ Although," says he^ " Heathen authors do 
sometimes include the Holy Land as a part 
of Syria, yet by sacred writers it is always 
used in a more restrained sense; and in the 
New Testament, as a country distinct, not only 
from the Holy Land, but also from Phoenice, 
(4) Seidell then quotes from Statins, Syl. V. 
Palastini simul Ebraiqiie liquores." 
/ id. Seldeni Prolegomena ad Syntagina de Diis Syris. 
(oj He is speaking of Pliny. " Almis la.cejines ponit Syrits: sed in 
hoc Melam suum sequutus erat, qui prope iisdem verbis, lib. i. cap. 1 1 . 
recitavit. Et ex hac opinione vidctur emanmse, ut multi scriptores 
Syriam et Assyrium pertnisceaiit uc confundant." Cellar. Geoj. Antiq. 
lib. iii. cap. 12. p. 393. Lips. 1706. 
(6) Histor. Geog. of the Old and New Tei^, vol. II. p. 139. O.if. 1 801 . 
