TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF PALESTINE, OR THE HOLY LAND; ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, AND TO EXTEND A KNOWLEDGE OF THAT INTERESTING COUNTRY. "Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, BY PETER GRAHAM. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. TO BE HAD OF J. DAVEY, BROAD STREET, BRISTOL; AND F. O. LANE, CLIFTON. 1836. L ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD MOUNTSANDFORD. MY LORD, As you have kindly acquiesced in permitting this Work to be dedicated to your Lordship, I feel it a duty incumbent on me to express, on behalf of myself, and my Reverend Friend, to whom the permission was given, how sensibly we feel the obligation; and, at the same time, to breathe an ardent wish, that these humble pages may be owned by that God to whose honour they were written, inasmuch as their intention is, by embodying the matter of sacred history, geographical delineation, and historical and critical research, to add force to the strength of scripture argument, and open to the inquiring mind fresh beauties in many of its sacred declarations. The arrangement of this volume is simple, and its method clear, giving all that is required on the subject, and yet avoiding that prolixity which tends to bewilder rather than enlighten the mind. And here, my Lord, I would advert to one of its most interesting features, namely, its utility to youth, inasmuch as it gives such, in their preparatory school, or paternal home, a thorough knowledge of that truly interesting country, Palestine, or the Holy Land. Connected as it is with the earlier records of Scrip |