Excerpt from The Land of Israel: A Text Book on the Physical, and Historical Geography of the Holy Land Embodying the Results of Recent Research In the footnotes credit has been given for all citations, and, as far as possible, the sources of direct information have been indicated. In the first part of the book a general description of the Land is given, including its position among the nations, its bounda ries and prominent physical features, its present condition and the salient points in its history. In the second part the special features and noteworthy places are grouped together in separate sections for study at close range. These sectional divisions correspond to the natural divisions of the country; and, with scarcely an exception, have familiar Old Testament names descriptive of their physical as peets and relations. An obvious advantage of this arrangement is the opportunity it affords for studying the characteristic features, and historical associations of each Biblical site in connection with its natural environment. In the historical records of the country the several incidents which make up the story of its sacred locali ties are often widely scattered, but in a Handbook of Sacred Geography they should be brought together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.