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Excerpt from A Description of the East, and Some Other Countries, Vol. 2: Part I, Observations on Palestine or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, and Candia
I have inferted maps of the earftern parts, becaufe they commonly give a great pleafure in having recourfe to them, and as they are not always at hand it is very convenient to have them in the book. The Ihape of the land on the fea, I have taken from the belt fea charts lately publifhed by the order of Monfieur Maurepas, and I have endeavoured from other maps, and from my own obfervations, to make them as perfeét as I could in relation both to antient and modern geography. The maps of the Propontis, of the Thracian Bofphorus, and another of the Euxine fea, from 'which the north part of Alia Minor is taken, were procur ed at conptantinople by the Reverend Doctor Thomas Li?e, fellow of Magdalen college _in Oxford, who offered me the ufe of them in the molt obliging manner. I am alfo to make my acknowledgements to the Reverend Mr.
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