PREFACE 
FIRST SECTION OF PART THE SECOND 
CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON THE 
GEOGRAPHY OF THE HOLY LAND. 
The Geography of the Country alluded to, 
by the several names of Syria, Palccstine, the 
Holy Land, the Land of Canaan, the Land of 
■Judaea, and the Land of Promise, is so exceedingly 
perplexed, that a few observations, written with 
a view to its illustration, will, it is hoped, be 
considered as an useful introduction to this 
Part of the author's Travels, in which the survey 
of that Country occupies a considerable share. 
Its various appellations have been used indis- 
criminately with reference to the same territory, 
or they have been separately applied to its 
different districts ; neither antient nor modern 
* geographers being agreed as to the precise 
limits intended by any one of them. 
