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country \ In this he is not accurate ; and the 
same remark may be applied to the writings 
of Cellarius, when he uses the expression 
'' Palcestina, sen Terra Sancta ;' thereby making 
Palcestine include all Phoenice, which it never did ; 
although Phoenice was comprehended in the 
- territory called Terra Sancta, or the Holy Land. 
PalcesfAne differed from the Holy Land, as a part 
may be said to differ from the whole. Bro- 
CARDUs evidently considers the first as being a 
part of the second ^ Upon this account the 
author has preferred the name of Th e Holy Land, 
as being the only general appellation which caii 
be said classically to comprehend the whole of that 
territory, distinguished as the Land of Promise 
to the Israelites, and by the Passion of Jesus 
C HRLST*. It has been erroneously supposed that 
the appellation " Terra Sancta" originated in 
the writings of Christians; who indefinitely 
applied it to that district of Syria which had 
(1) Theatrum Terra- Sancta; p. 1, Colon. 16^8. 
(2) Ci?//ar. Geog. Antiq. passim. Vid. cap.xii. lib. 3. " De Si/rid," 
cap. xiii. " De Palcestind, quas et Chanaan, et Terra Sancta; &c." 
torn. n. Lips. 1706. 
(3) Bishop Pocoche, in bis Description of the East, considers the two 
expressions as synonymous. See vol. W.part 1. ch. 1. Lond. 1745. 
(4) " Duplici ratio?ie nomen Terra- Sancta; iiuic regioni trihuitur, 
aliter a Judais, aliter a Otristianis." Reland. De Nomine Terra 
Sancta. Vid. Thesaur. Jntiq. Ugol. vol. VL cap. 4. Hadriani Relandi 
Palmstina, Ven. 1746. 
