PREFACE 
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be surveyed and described ; not by transcribing what 
others have written,” but by fairly stating what “ they 
have themselves seen, experienced, and handled,” so that 
a their pains and diligence be not altogether vain,” 
Such were the motives, and such was the language, of a 
traveller in the Holy Land, so long ago as the middle of 
the sixteenth century ;(£) who, with the liberal spirit of 
an enlightened and pious prolestant, thus ventured to ex¬ 
press his sentiments, when the bonfires for burning here¬ 
tics were as yet hardly extinguished in this country. 
Wriling five-and-ihirty years before Sandys began his 
journey,(a)and two centuries and a half before Mons. De 
Chateaubriand published his entertaining narrative, he 
offers an example singularly contrasted with the French 
author’s legendary detail ;(&) wherein the chivalrous (c) 
and bigotted spirit of the eleventh century seems singu¬ 
larly associated with the taste, the genius, and the litera¬ 
ture of the nineteenth. 
P. S. The only plants mentioned in the notes, are those 
which have never been described by any preceding 
writer. Not less than sixty new-discovered species will 
be found added to the science of Botany, in this and the 
subsequent section of Part the Second. 
(z) See the Travels of Leonhart Rau wolff, a German physician, as published by 
Ray, in 1693. The words included by inverted commas, are literally taken from 
Ray’s translation of that work. (See the Epist. to Widtholtz, Christel, and Berner, 
Also Trav. parts, chap. iv. p. 290.) Rau w.olff was at Jerusalem in 1575. (See chap, 
viii. p. 315.) The religious opinions he professed, and his disregard of indulgehcies, 
roused the indignation of the monks, particularly of the learned Quaresmius, a Fran¬ 
ciscan 4’riar, who wrote a most elaborate description of the Holy Land, already cited. 
This was published at Antwerp in 1639, in two Large folio volumes, with plates. Re¬ 
ferring to the passages here introduced from Rauwolff’s book, Quaresmius .'exclaims, 
“ Quid amplius Rauchwolfius? Ecce in ipso Monte Sion derepente in Praedicantera 
transformatus concionari caepit, et ne tarn insignem, concionem ignoraremus Uteris 
earn maudavit quam ex Germanico idiomate in Latinum transtulit P. Gretserus, ut ad 
exteros quoque redundet, sed ne obstat, illam etiam rejicit. Audiamus...Atqui, o 
prasdi.cantice Medice! re.cte profecto dicis ; nihil penitus peregrinatione tua, aut im- 
petrasti, aut, meritus es I” Quaresmii. Elucid. Terr. Sanct. lib. iii, cap. 34. tom. 1, p. 
836. Ant v. 1639. 
(а) Sandys began his journey in 1610. 
(б) ‘‘ Here,” says Mons. De Chateaubriand, “ I saw, on the right, the place where 
dwelt the indigent Lazarus; and on the opposite side of the street, the residence of 
the obdurate rich man.” Afterward he proceeds to state, that St. Chrysostom, SL 
Ambrose, and St, Cyril, have looked upon the history of Lazarus and the rich man as 
not merely a parable, but a real and well-known fact. “ The Jews themselves,” says 
lie, “ have preserved the name of the rich man, whom they call Aabal.”—(See Tra¬ 
vels in Greece, Palestine, &e. vol. II. pp. 26, 27. Lorid. 1811.) Mons. De Chateau¬ 
briand does not seem to be aware, that Kabal is an appellation used by the Jews to tie' 
note any covetous person. 
(c) See the interesting description given by Mons. De Chateaubriand of the monk¬ 
ish ceremony which conferred upon him the order of “ a knight of the Holy SepyL 
ehre.U Ibid, pp, 176,177. 
