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bled the reader with fuch cities, or towns, as are mentioned only in Jofhua, in reference to the feveral tribes they belonged to, but no where else in refeference to any hiftorical tranfaction or occurrence. There being also several other places, which are but once or twice mentioned in the facred hiftory, and that but barely, fo as no light is afforded thereby (or from any other authors) as to their fituation, I have likewife judged it better to pass most of them quite over in filence, than to name them only to tell the reader, that no tolerable account could be given of them. For the fame reafon I have not crowded the map of the Holy Land with multitude of places of no use to be known, but have inserted therein only fuch as are remarkable in reference to the facred hiftory.

To take off the drynefs of bare Geography, I have ftudiously laid hold of fuch opportunities as came in my way, to take notice of any curiofity, either natural or artificial. And I have ventured to enlarge upon the Pyramids, as being fome of the nobleft pieces of human art and labour, either ancient

or modern.

There remains only to obferve, that, in order to adjust the geography of these facred books, I have, upon confulting the Samaritan or old Hebrew Pentateuch, learnt the true original reading of feveral texts, particularly of Deut. x. 6, 7. whereby the contrariety of the present reading of the faid text (in the

common

common Hebrew and our English Bible) to Numb.
xxxiii. 30. is quite taken away, as is fhewn pages
277, 281, 283. of this volume; and in like manner,
the present corrupt reading of Exod. xii. 40. in the
common Hebrew and our English Bible, is corrected
from the Samaritan Pentateuch, as it is fhewn in the
Chronological Account hereto belonging.

VOL. I.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOL. I.

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY of the OLD TESTAMENT.

PART I.

CHAP. I.

Of the Places of the Antediluvian World, mentioned in

facred Hiftory; viz. the Garden of Eden, the Land of

Nod, and the City of Enoch.

CHAP. II.

p. I.

Of the Mountains of Ararat, whereon the Ark of Noah

refted, upon the abating of the Flood: together with

fome confiderations concerning the Place where the Ark

was made, the Wood it was made of, and the Form it

was made in.

p. 29.

CHAP. III.

Of the firft Plantations or Settlements after the Flood.

SECT. I.

p. 49.

Containing what relates to the first Plantations or Settle-

ments after the Flood, in general.

SECT. II.

p. 49.

Of the firft Plantations of the Defcendants of Japhet, eldest

Son of Noah; and also of fome of the Colonies thereof in

after-ages, particularly of the Ancient Britons.

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P. 57.

SECT.

SECT. III.

Of the firft Plantations or original Settlements of the De-

fcendants of Shem, or Sem.

SECT. IV.

p. 92.

Of the firft Plantations of the Defcendants of Ham. p.99.

CHAP. IV.

Of the Land of Shinar, and the City and Tower of Babel.

p. 109.

CHAP. V.

Of the Conquefts and Kingdom of Nimrod.

p. 115.

CHAP. VI.

Of Chaldea, Ur of the Chaldees, and Haran.

CHAP. VII.

p. 128.

Of the Land of Canaan, from the firft Plantation thereof

after the Flood, to Abraham's coming thereto; as alfo

of the Inhabitants of the adjacent Countries, at the time

of Abraham's coming into Canaan.

CHAP. VIII.

P. 134.

Of the Dwellings of Abraham's Children, by Keturah.

p. 182.

CHAP.