Excerpt from Palestine Exploration Fund: Quarterly Statement, January 1869-September 1870 No country should be of so much interest to us as that in which the documents of our Faith were written, and the momentous events they describe enacted. At the same time no country more urgently requires illustration. Even to a casual traveller in the Holy Land the Bible becomes, in its form, and therefore to some extent in its substance, 3. New book. Many an allusion which hitherto had no meaning, or had lain unnoticed starts into prominence and throws a light over a whole passage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.