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PREFACE.
The main object of the journey, the leading incidents of
which are detailed in the following sheets, is sufficiently ex-
plained in the first chapter. While traveling for the benefit
of my health, much of my time was employed in making crit-
ical observations and entering minutes of the result in my daily
Journal. From what I now present, the reader will readily
perceive that the task was one of considerable labor. The
whole work is the result of my own personal observations, with
some small additional aid derived by comparing notes with
works of previous travelers.
Of my descriptive details, I fear not criticism, but rather court
it. I am confident the more closely examined, the stronger
will be the evidence of their entire correctness. In describing,
I have aimed to do it in the most concise and plain manner, that
the reader may take up this volume and intellectually travel
the whole journc}' with me. I have aimed to shun all useless
redundancy in language—avoid fanciful embellishments, and
give plain, naked truth. Having no sect or party of men to
please, I have written wholly independent of bias and prepos-
session.
On many localities named in the Sacred History, the traveler
in the East, will, at this late period, have necessarily to exercise
his own judgment. In this particular, I claim not infallibility,
but simply the right of speaking and thinking for myself. My
decisions, however, are as open to criticism as those of others.
Let them be testsd by impartial investigation. While the
ordinary reader will find in this volume much to please and
interest him, the devout Christian will, I trust, find nothing
incompatible with true piety. In ranging over the principal
scenery of the Bible, I saw continually before me much, very
much, to strengthen the faith of the Christian. I have conse-
The main object of the journey, the leading incidents of
which are detailed in the following sheets, is sufficiently ex-
plained in the first chapter. While traveling for the benefit
of my health, much of my time was employed in making crit-
ical observations and entering minutes of the result in my daily
Journal. From what I now present, the reader will readily
perceive that the task was one of considerable labor. The
whole work is the result of my own personal observations, with
some small additional aid derived by comparing notes with
works of previous travelers.
Of my descriptive details, I fear not criticism, but rather court
it. I am confident the more closely examined, the stronger
will be the evidence of their entire correctness. In describing,
I have aimed to do it in the most concise and plain manner, that
the reader may take up this volume and intellectually travel
the whole journc}' with me. I have aimed to shun all useless
redundancy in language—avoid fanciful embellishments, and
give plain, naked truth. Having no sect or party of men to
please, I have written wholly independent of bias and prepos-
session.
On many localities named in the Sacred History, the traveler
in the East, will, at this late period, have necessarily to exercise
his own judgment. In this particular, I claim not infallibility,
but simply the right of speaking and thinking for myself. My
decisions, however, are as open to criticism as those of others.
Let them be testsd by impartial investigation. While the
ordinary reader will find in this volume much to please and
interest him, the devout Christian will, I trust, find nothing
incompatible with true piety. In ranging over the principal
scenery of the Bible, I saw continually before me much, very
much, to strengthen the faith of the Christian. I have conse-