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AN

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

OF THE

OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT.

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

OF THE

OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT:

IN TWO VOLUMES.

RODLEY

BY

EDWARD WELLS, D. D.

RECTOR OF COTESBACH IN LEICESTERSHIRE.

VOL. I.

OXFORD,

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

MDCCCIX.

Clar. Press.

31. a.78.

ADVERTISEMENT.

IN this edition it has been deemed fufficient to retain fo much only of the Prefaces that were prefixed, in the original editions, to the different volumes, as tends to elucidate the fubject, or to explain the grounds upon which Dr. WELLS proceeded. The Dedications, as well as the Cuts, or Draughts, which were taken chiefly from Le Bruyn's Travels, a work not very difficult to be procured, are omitted; and the Alphabetical Tables to the different volumes are comprised in one general Index. The fuperior merit of D'Anville's Ancient Maps is now fo generally acknowledged, that little apology feems neceffary for new modelling by them the general plan of the maps given in the former editions of Dr. WELLS; where the fituation affigned to any particular place or country in one map rarely coincides with the fituation affigned to it in another; not to mention that in many inftances it is affigned erroneously in both. In all cafes, however, in which it appears from the work itself, that Dr. WELLS has deliberately adopted an opinion, from which D'Anville differs, the preference has uniformly been given to the former; an

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