“In every way an attractive volume, one of the best works of the kind; the present edition contains upwards of thirty new illustrations, and has been carefully revised. It is an admirable gift-book, and very cheap.”—_Record._ “It is enough commendation to say that the pencil is for the most part Mr. Whymper’s, for he is surpassed by no living artist in the vigour and truth with which he expresses mountain forms.... The ‘pen’ is confessedly subordinate to the ‘pencil’; but it plays an admirable second, not wasting its ink on mere reiterated expressions of admiration or laboured descriptions, which never succeed in really describing anything, but selecting choice morsels of historical association, picturesque anecdotes of mountain climbing, and classical passages from the great writers in prose and verse, who have illustrated the Alps by their genius.”—_Guardian._ LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Footnote 1: 2 Chron. ii. 16; Ezra iii. 7. Footnote 2: Jonah i. 3. Footnote 3: Acts ix. 36-43; x. 1-18. Footnote 4: Acts x. 6. Footnote 5: Isa. xxxv. 2. Footnote 6: Ibid. xxxiii. 9. Footnote 7: Ibid. lxv. 10. Footnote 8: Cant. ii. 1. Footnote 9: The name of one of these hamlets, passed soon after leaving Jaffa, reminds us that we are in the old Philistine territory—Beit Dejan = Beth Dagon, _i.e._, the house of Dagon, 1 Sam. v. 2. Footnote 10: Isa. vi. 11-13. Jer. iv. 7; ix. 11; xxvi. 9; xxxiii. 10; xxxiv. 22; etc. etc. Footnote 11: 1 Chron. viii. 12. Ezra ii. 33. Neh. xi. 35. Acts ix. 32-39. Footnote 12: 1 Sam. vi. 12, 13. Footnote 13: Luke xxiv. 13-35. Footnote 14: Joshua ix. 3-15. Footnote 15: Ibid. x. 6, 7. Footnote 16: Joshua x. 8-27. See Stanley’s ‘Sinai and Palestine,’ pp. 208-212. Footnote 17: Ibid. ix. 17. Footnote 18: Ibid. ix. 17; xv. 9, 60; xviii. 14, 15, 28. Footnote 19: 1 Sam. vi. 21; vii. 1, 2. 1 Chron. xiii. 5. Psalm cxxxii. 6. Footnote 20: 1 Sam. xvii. Footnote 21: Luke xxiv. 13-33. Footnote 22: Gen. xxxv. 16-20. Footnote 23: Gen. xlviii. 7. Footnote 24: Eccles. ii. 4-6. Footnote 25: The soil which looks so utterly and hopelessly barren is not so in reality. To an English eye the attempt to cultivate these hill-sides would appear almost madness. But the result of my inquiries was, that under proper tillage the soil is very fertile. The reply of several peasants when questioned was, “If we had people to till the ground, and a government that would let us live, we could grow anything.” Footnote 26: Num. xiii. 23-27. Footnote 27: Gen. xlix. 11, 12. Footnote 28: Isa. v. 1, 2. Footnote 29: Matt. xxi. 33. Mark xii. 1. Luke xx. 9. Footnote 30: Num. xiii. 22. Footnote 31: Joshua xxi. 11. Footnote 32: 2 Chron. xx. 7. Isa. xli. 8. James ii. 23. Footnote 33: Gen. xiii. 18.