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Excerpt from The New Biblical Atlas, and Scripture Gazetteer: With Descriptive Notices of the Tabernacle and the Temple Considerable attention has been given during the last twenty years to Biblical Geography: its study has been promoted by the recent laborious investigations of learned men, and by a more careful preparation of maps. In the year 1840, the Religious Tract Society issued a Scripture Atlas, which was found very useful, and which has had an extended circulation. Since that time a considerable advance has been made in this department of knowledge. Very few localities in Palestine, for instance, had, up to that period, been satisfactorily ascertained, either by astronomical observation or geographical survey. The accounts of nearly all early travellers had been loose and indefinite, and often legendary and fabulous. More recent writers, however, have felt the importance of greater care and accuracy, and hence materials have been furnished for the preparation of maps far superior to those hitherto published. For the arrangement of the present Atlas, the principal guide has been the "Bibel Atlas nach den neuesten und besten Hulfsquellen," the production of Heinrich Keipert, of Berlin, a learned artist, who executed the valuable maps, and wrote the accompanying memoir, for Dr. Robinson's "Biblical Researches." But whilst his publication has formed the basis, the labours of Berghaus, Ritter, Schubert, Guers, and others, have afforded valuable assistance. The Physical Map, constructed by Petermann expressly for this work, will commend itself to the attention of the studious reader. The descriptive matter has been carefully compiled from the works of Burckhardt, Buckingham, Robinson, Wilson, Olin, Barth, Kitto, Coleman, Lynch, Bartlett, and other modem writers. It is hoped that this improved work may assist many to read the Bible with more interest and profit; and that, so reading, they may, through the blessing of the Divine Spirit, experience the power of that holy book in enlightening the eyes, converting the soul, and rejoicing the heart. 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."
