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] em , for example , in which Lightfoot has been followed , and , as he placed Mount Zion to the N . instead of the S . of the city , the form of the whole has been inverted . But we are quite at a loss for a biblical atlas , so constructed as to combine the information of the ancients , critically viewed , with the accounts derived frotn the examination of those countries in modern times , exhibiting also a mythical map for the oldest period with an Orbis Biblicus , and representing Palestine in the different periods of its history . Considerable difficulties attend the task of sketching critical maps and of determining the situation of places in general . Sometimes the different accounts of a place do not well coincide , and the question arises whether two places are
not to be assumed of the same name ; sometimes places or territories have been created merely in consequence of the misunderstanding of certain passages ( for example , the Lake Jaeser from Is . xvi . 8 , compared with Jer . xlviii . 8 ; Ulam-Luz from Gen . xxviii . 19 , instead of Luz , according to the LXX . ) ; sometimes doubtful readings in the original books ( for example , in Joshua ) or in the ancient versions , and the very various determinations of distances in Eusebius , Jerome , Josephus , and others , produce
embarrassment . To the most accurate of the older maps belong those of Reland and Hase in their works above-mentioned ; also those of D'Anville , which have been partly adopted as a basis , and partly corrected in single particulars by J . E . Rhode , in the Atlas published by the Academy of Berlin , and by Paulus , ( Map of Palestine , ) in the first part of Travels in the East . The map of Faultre f Charte physique et politique de la Syrie , pour servir a Vhistoire des conquMes dn , GSnSral Bonaparte en Orient , fait au Caire , Von S J is
almost entirely copied from D ^ Anville , and no advantage is taken in it of the observations made by the commission of scientific men in iEgypt with a view to determine astronomically the position of four points in Palestine , viz . Acre , the Monastery on Carmel , Jaffa , and Gaza . In all these maps great errors were committed , more particularly in delineating the region beyond the Jordan , which was first properly represented by Seetzen from
drawings made on the spot in the monthly Correspondenz iiber Erd-u .-Himmels-kunde durch v . Zach , No . for December 1810 . By following him , employing also the above-mentioned astronomical determinations , and correcting the false position of places towards the E . in Seetzen ' s map , the new map by Kloden ( in his Landeskunde von Palaestina ) has been executed with great care , and has not been surpassed by that of Reichard . The country on the other side of the Jordan , and that to the S . towards Mount Sinai , has
ver y ^ recently received further valuable illustrations in consequence of the researches of Burckhardt . These must be received into the maps , and are much more to be relied upon than those furnished a little earlier by Buckingham . For the external geography Bochart ' s maps can scarcely be used on account of the great number of names resting on mere conjecture , and recourse must therefore be had to the general maps of D'Anville and others .
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Biblical Geography . 441
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/9/
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