Carmel " 88 Nain " 93 The Sea of Galilee " 99 Krak des Chevaliers (Kala’t el Hosn) " 108 Moab Mountains from the Plain of Shittim " 142 A Dolmen west of Heshbon " 144 View of Dead Sea from Mount Nebo " 158 Hittites from Abu Simbel " 198 Hamath Stone, No. 1 " 200 _MAPS (Printed in Colours)._ I. General Map of Palestine _facing page_ 1 II. Physical Map of Palestine _at end_ III. Geological Map of Palestine " IV. Palestine as divided among the Twelve Tribes " V. Palestine " VI. The Kingdom of Jerusalem, showing the Fiefs, about 1187 A.D. " VII. Modern Palestine, showing the Turkish Provinces " _MAPS IN TEXT._ Palestine and Syria according to Ptolemy, _c._ 100 A.D. _page_ 2 A Section of Peutinger’s Table " 4 Marin Sanuto’s Map of the Holy Land, 1321 " 12 The Holy Land, from the Atlas of Ortelius, _c._ 1591 " 14 [Illustration: PALESTINE] PALESTINE. _INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER._ The long narrow strip of country on the east shore of the Mediterranean, which in a manner was the centre of the ancient world, has in all ages been a land of pilgrimage. For five hundred miles it stretches from the deserts of Sinai to the rugged Taurus, and its width, shut in between the Syrian deserts and the sea, is rarely more than fifty miles. It can never be quite the same to us as other lands, bound up as it is with our earliest memories, with the Bible and the story of the faith; and it is to the credit of our native land that we have been the first to gather that complete account of the country, of its ancient remains, and of its present inhabitants, which (if we except India) does not exist in equal exactness for any other Eastern land.