xii PREFACE TO FIRST SECTION 
and of which the coasts of Tyre and Sidon wer§ 
the southern part; so that by Syria, m the New 
Testament, is to be understood the country 
lying to the east and north-east of the Holy Land, 
betv.'een Phoenice and the Mediterranean Sea to 
the west, and the river Euphrates to the east.'' 
Under all these circumstances, although there 
may be something more suited to existing pre- 
judices in the use of the word Pal^estineS the 
author believes that he is accurate in considering 
The Holy Land as an appellation of a more exten- 
sive, although not a less definite, signification ^ 
He also believes that he is the more justified 
in adopting this latter name, as distinguished 
from the former, because he thereby adheres 
to the clue afforded by the observations of 
Brocardus; an author held in the highest 
estimation, by men who have written most learn^ 
edly upon the countr}"- to which these observa- 
tions refer. Brocardus was doubly qualified, 
(1) ** Pal(Estin<E nomen, quod nobis prs reliquis placuit, quum hnic 
operi tituluni daremus," says Reland, with reference to his inestimable 
work, " Palastina Illustrata." 
(2) Fullei', la \m '^ Pisgah'Sight of Palcestine," perhaps intending 
a sly satire upon the age (for it was published in the be^nning of th« 
reign of Charles the Second), refrains from calling it the Holy Land^ 
through fear of being thought superstitious : " Lest," as he quaintly 
expresseth it, " whilest I call the land holy, this age count me super- 
stitious." See Book I. c. ii. p. 2. Lond. 1650. 
