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PART THE SECOND. 
When the author published the first volume of these 
Travels, he proposed to divide the work into three por¬ 
tions. The observations made in “ Greece, Syria s and 
Egypt,” were reserved for the second part; whether con¬ 
sisting of one volume, or of more than one . This plan m 
still pursued; but from the very perplexed state of the 
geography of the country alluded to by the word Syria 
the less exceptionable appellation of Palestine was sub¬ 
stituted, in the second edition, for that of Syria. The 
same perplexity has again induced the author to alter 
what he had thus written, and to consider the present pub¬ 
lication as containing observations made in Greece* 
Egypt, and the Holy Land . 
The several names of Syria, Palestine, the Holy Land, 
the Land of Canaan, the Land of Judaea, and the Land of 
Promise, have been used indiscriminately with reference 
to a particular territory, or separately applied to different 
parts of it. Neither ancient nor modern geographers are 
agreed as to the precise limits intended by either of these 
appellations. According to some authors, Syria, Phce- 
nice, and Palestine, were three distinct regions. Others 
include, within the Syrian frontier, not only Phcenice and 
Palestine, but also Mesopotamia. Strabo describes Syria 
as comprehending all the country from Mount Amanus 
and the river Euphrates to Arabia and to Egypt. (a) 
^The word Palestine occurs only once, incidentally, in all 
his writings. (b) Yet the name was in use above four 
(а) Strabon, Geog. lib. xvi. p. 1063. ed. Oxon. 1807. 
(б) Lib. xvi. p. 1103. ed. Oxon. It is found in the following authors, according to 
the references which I have collected from Reland’s Palestine, c. 7. Bio Cassius , 
lib. 21. Pkotius in Biblioth. p. 1311. Julian, in lib. contra Christian. Flav. Vopiscus 
in vit. Aurdiahi. Statius Sylv, lib . 3. earn. 2. Stilus. JtaUUb . 3. Ovid, in Fastis, Mem. lib 
4 tt 5, Mdani. 
