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Excerpt from Palestine Exploration Fund: Quaterly Statement for 1881 The appearance of Mr. Oliphant's book on the Land of Gilead is happily timed for those whose attention will now be turned 'to the land east of the Jordan. If anything were needed to show, more clearly than the Prospectus and the Report of the Meeting have shown, the necessity for our Survey, a perusal of this volume would furnish the last argument. Everywhere we read of bad maps, unknown districts, places where no European has ever been, ruins which have never been examined, strange people, and wild traditions. The Land of Gilead, illustrates the remark made by the Dean of Westminster at the late meeting, that East of the Jordan lies a land of mystery. Another event of the quarter is the appearance of Colonel Warren's new book on Jerusalem Topography. It is already well known that the author holds Views on the subject diametrically opposed to those advocated by Mr. James Fergusson in his Temples of the Jews, and other books on the same subject. The new work is essentially controversial, and as such, will be found a valuable addition to the literature on the sacred sites. 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.

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