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Excerpt from The New Descriptive Geography of Palestine, Vol. 1 of 3 It will be necessary, to a ready use of this manual, to remember: 1. That all the biblical geographic names in this list are to be found in the recently published map of Palestine and part of Syria, edited by Drs. Osborn and Coleman, and all sites are designated about which any thing certainly is known. Those about which nothing is known, are entirely omitted. So that if a name does not occur in this list, the reader may take it for granted that the site of the place is not known, or has not been announced at the date of this edition. 2. All the names which are printed on the map in square black letters are to be found in that exact spelling in the latest and approved editions of the Bible, and the size of the type or of the mark used to represent the place, generally, indicates its importance either anciently or at present. 3. The shaded outline letters give the names of places which were important during the Crusades or the early Roman Empire, or in history other than that of Scripture. 4. Script letters are the present Arabic names which often help to locate the Scriptural places. 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.