PREFACE. 
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centuries anterior to the Christian iEra, as appears by 
several passages in the text of Herodotus^cJ who de¬ 
scribes Palestine as that country which reaches from the 
borders of Egypt as far as Phcenice. Pliny separates 
the two countries of Phosuice and Palestine in more than 
one instanc e.(d) Phocas, who visited the Holy Land 
m the twelfth century, e) and wrote the account of it so 
highly esteemed by Leo AIIatius,(jjQ evidently distin¬ 
guishes Palestine both from Gaililee and Samaria. ("o-J 
Brocardus, who travelled a century after Phocas, with 
equal perspicuity and brevity, (k) extends the bounda¬ 
ries of Syria from the Tigris to Egypt; separates Phoe- 
nice from Palestine, but considers both these countries 
as belonging to ■ Judsea and Samaria, into which kingdoms 
the Holy Land was divided after the time of Solomon, (i) 
Considering therefore Palestine' as a part of the Holy 
Land, he divides it into three parts; the first being Pa - 
Ikistme, properly so called, whereof Jerusalem was the 
metropolis ; the second, Palmline of Cesarea ; and the 
third, Paicestine of Gaililee . Adrichoniius.ffc ) who 
professes to follow Brocardus, (l)' considers the land of 
Canaan, Palestine, and the Holy Land, as names of the 
same co'untry.(m) In this he is not accurate ; and the 
same remark may he applied to the writings of Cellaring, 
when he uses the expression “ Palmtina , sen Terra 
Sanda ;'\n) thereby making Palestine include all Phoe- 
nice, -which it never did ; although Phcenice was com¬ 
prehended in the territory called Terra Sanda, or the 
(c) Herodot. Clio, 105. Thalia, 5. Polyhymn. 8. 
Id) Namque Pala&st ma vocahatur, qua contigit Arabas, et Judgea, et Co^.Ie, dein 
Phcenice.” Plin. Hist. Hat. 1. 5. c. 12. “Finis Palzestines centum octoginta 
nevemmillia uassuuzn, a confinio Araliae, deinde Phcenice.” Ibid. c. 13. L. Bat. 1635. 
(e) A. D. 1185. 
\j) “ Autor elegans et accuratas, prout rlla ferebant tempera, visus est.” Leon . 
Allat. Prafal. in SuixjifxTa. Colon- 1653. 
(g) “ Urbis dextere partes Carmelum et Maritimam Palaestinae oram, sinistrae Gal- 
lilaaam et b’amariam habent.” Phocas de Loc Syria, Pfucnicicc, et Palestine. cap L 6. 
(A) Locorum Terras .Sancta Desriptio. Basil, 1537. Brocardus travelled in 
the year 1283. See Egmont and Hey man's Travels, vol. 11. p. 236. London , 
1759 
(i) Post tempus Salomon is in duo regna excrevit; unum regnum Jud&e dicebatur 
_alterum,vero regnum Sam aril b vocabatur. Ibid . 
(fc) Theatrum Terra Sanetre. Colon. 1628.* 
(/) Ibid in Prasfat., pp. 1 et 3. 
(m) Theatrum Terrae Sancte, p. 1. 
In) Cellar. Geog, Antiq. passim. Vide cap. xii. lib. 3. 11 De Syria.” cap. sih 
t« )y t Palestine,” et Chqnaan> H Terra Sarnda, &c.” tons. XL Lips, 1706. 
