The borrower must return this item on or before the last date stamped below. If another user places a recall for this item, the borrower will be notified of the need for an earlier return. Non-receipt of overdue notices does not exempt the borrower from overdue fines. Harvard College Widener Library Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2413 WIDENER SEP 1 0 2000 BOOK DUE Please handle with care. Thank you for helping to preserve library collections at Harvard. PREFACE. TRAVELLERS in Palestine pass through the land in the saddle, and by night sleep in the tent. Neither tent nor saddle is conducive to close reading, and, if the traveller be only a Tourist, his object is to fill his mind with general impressions, and to leave the minute study of details for a more convenient season. The present volume is intended as a Handbook for Tourists; it does not, therefore, attempt to give exhaustive information, or to unravel the multitudinous threads of controversy woven around nearly every sacred site. It points out all that is to be seen, and endeavours to give concise information upon all subjects in which the Tourist may find interest. The special raison d'etre of the present volume is, that a work is required that shall be so clearly printed as to be read without difficulty, either on horseback or in the dim light of the tent; shall be arranged in such a manner, that in a moment any information may be ascertained; and shall contain the full text of Scripture references, so as to avoid the inconvenience of having to turn to the passage in the Bible. Nearly all Palestine travellers have complained of the inconvenience of reading from a double-columned or closely |