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Excerpt from Voyage of the U. S. Exploring Squadron, Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Navy, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842: Together With Explorations and Discoveries Made by Admiral D'urville, Captain Ross, and Other Navigators and Travellers; And an Account of the Expedition to the Dead Sea, Under Lieutenant Lynch It would have been easy for me to have swelled the size of the Second Part of the book, by inserting the stereotyped gleanings of almost every modern traveller who has visited the Holy Land, which have, from continued repetition, become familiar to every reader; but I could not find any justification for taking that course. The important results, and the actual information, Obtained by the Dead Sea Expedition, may be reduced within a very narrow compass. 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.