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Identifier: palestinephysica00kitt (find matches)
Title: Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Kitto, John, 1804-1854
Subjects: Nature in the Bible Physical geography Natural history
Publisher: London : Charles Knight
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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VOL. I.
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CHAPTER III.
GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.

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[[[:w:Mount Sinai (Bible)|Rock of Moses]].]

Our information concerning the geology and mineralogy of Palestine is remarkably imperfect
and indistinct: for these were matters which the older travellers entirely overlooked; and the
dispersed and incidental notices with which we have more lately been supplied are found to be
very defective, when an attempt is made to combine their facts in one connected statement.
Hasselquist, Shaw, Volney, De Roziere, Seetzen, Clarke, Burckhardt, Irby and Mangles, and
Buckingham, furnish nearly all the information which can be obtained ; and that is only such
as will supply materials for the statement which we have now to offer. That it is a very
imperfect one we know; but are persuaded that it comprises the substance of all existing
information, and that nothing of any consequence has escaped our researches. Some geological information has been given in the preceding chapter, particularly as regards
the mountains of Seir and Sinai; and indeed all the information which we are now about to

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