IV. Principal Invasions of Palestine (continued) VI. Mountains of Palestine (continued) VII. Mountains of Palestine (continued)... VIII. Mountains of Palestine (continued) IX. Mountains of Palestine (continued). XI. Rivers of Palestine (continued) XIII. Lakes of Palestine (continued) XIV. Wells and Pools of Palestine XV. Wells and Pools of Palestine (continued). XVII. Plains and Valleys of Palestine (continued) PAGE. 5 9 INTRODUCTION. There are few subjects to which the mind can be directed more generally useful than geography. The study of its several divisions opens up to the mind inexhaustible stores of knowledge and delight, and brings us into association with men of other times and tongues. While, however, it facilitates our knowledge of men and things, it supplies to the intelligent mind a field of inquiry and investigation as boundless as it is pleasurable. By its means, the family circle, enjoying the quiet and repose of home, may live in proximity with its members who are far distant, and become, to some extent at least, acquainted with the scenes and localities in which those members dwell. To a mind thus furnished the separation is intelligent, and affords material for reflection. The winds that blow-the currents that intervene the variations of climate and scenery-will ever and anon rise before the imagination in converse or in solitude, and supply some element of thought, or topic of conversation. Far otherwise is it with the man who has scarcely an appreciable knowledge of point, or space, or change. The son or daughter of his love may be far distant, in a land of which he knows nothing but the name, all else being to him a perfect blank. He has not surveyed the cosmotic landscape-the beautiful panorama, with its varied details, has presented no charms to him-that glorious volume at |