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in different visions through heaven by the archangels , and there surveys the secret phenomena of the world . He sees in the East six gates , out of which the sun goes in the different seasons of the year , and six in the West * itito which be enters when he sets ; and the prophet is also conducted to the treasures of the ram , the snow , and the hail , &c , ( Liber Henochi , MS . Paris , cap . lxi . folio 33 , recto . ) The most important part of biblical geography is of course the geography of Palestine , which may be divided into the physical and the political . The physical geography is the more interesting , since this country , small as it is , presents many remarkable peculiarities , such as the Dead Sea , the more perfect illustration of which con tin ties even yet to be promoted by examinations on the spot . To Burckhardt we are indebted for the observation ,
that the bed and valley of the Jordan are prolonged towards the South from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic Gulf , so » s to countenance the supposition , that the Jordan originally poured itself into this Gulf , but that its course has been stopped by the volcanic formation of the Dead Sea . * All the information upon this point to be derived from ancient and modern authors is collected with great accuracy , and illustrated by excellent and judicious
comments , in the second part of Hitter ' s Geography , Time may certainly have produced some change even in the physical condition of the country : for example , all the authors of antiquity and even of the middle ages speak of sulphureous smells and vapours , which no modern traveller has observed , while other appearances , such as hot springs , naphtha , and native sulphur , prove the volcanic condition and origin of the soil .
As a part of physical geography in the more extensive sense of the expression , we xnay reckon the description of animals and plants , vrhich form the subject of biblical zoology and botany . On the fornrer study we possess a highly classical work by Bochart , one of the greatest Orientalists of modern times ; in it every thing is presented which the most extensive knowledge of the oriental languages , or which the natural historians of Arabia , the ancient versions , and the Greek and Roman classics , supply
towards the explanation of the names of animals and of all passages of the Bible which have any reference to zoology ; it can only be charged with indicating perhaps too strong a propensity to etymological illustrations .- } - The botany of the Scriptures is illustrated in a work no less valuable , but now become rare , by Ol . Celsius . ^ In addition to these works , the writings of Scheuchzer , Schmidt , and Hiller , § are almost indispensable to the learned expositor of Scripture , although they admit of many additions and corrections , especially irona the accounts of later travellers . il Besides the Arabian
? Travels in Syria and the Holy Land , p . 8 . * t * Hierozoicon , » . de Animal ] bus , S . S-, London , 166 * 3 , folio , often reprinted , especially ed . Roseomiiller , Lips . 1793—1 / 95 . 3 vols . 4 to . Comp . Fr . Jac . Schoderi Hierozoici ex Sam . Bocharto , itinerariU variis , aliisqne doctorum virorum conjmeiitariis , Spec . 1 . —III . Tubingee , 1784—1786 .
X Hierobotamcon , 8 . de Plantis Scripturae Sacra : Upsal , J 745 , 1747 . 2 vols . 8 vo . A new edition of this book , which Lorsbach formerly projected , i » to be expected from Professor Middeldorpf , of Breslau . § «/ . J . Sckeuchxeri , Fhysica Sacra : Ulm , 1731 . S . G . DonaVs Aimag aas Schleuclizer's Physlca Sacra , mU Anmerkuugen « . ErJ&aeertmgen der darin vorkotnraenden 8 ac ) ien aes den ueoera exegetfstfheti , physiwchen , ami hist . Sdirif ^ en : Leipt . 1777 . 4 to . 3 yoIs . Scfmidf * Bibl . Physicus : Leips . 1731 . Matt . ffMeri , Hierophyticon . Traj . ad Rhenftm , 1725 . 4 to . \\ See Sam . Oedtnann ' s vermfctchte 8 atnmtangen bus der Natnrlcande zur ErfcliiruiiK der heiliften Schrift . Aus dem Schwed . ubeTs . vo « Gr 6 nii ) g . Rostock vind Leipzig ,
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438 Biblical Geography .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 438, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/6/
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