PUBLISHED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER, NEW YORK: JONATHAN LEAVITT, 182 Broadway. 1835. 4. Peninsula of Mount Sinai, Idumea, &c....... ⚫p. 28 52 174 98 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by CROCKER & BREWSTER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED AT THE PREFACE. THE following work is intended to present in a compendious form to the public, and especially to young persons, the more important portions of the biblical information contained in the octavo edition of Calmet's Dictionary, recently prepared by the Editor, and issued by the same enterprising Publishers. In that work, it was a chief object to bring together such information as might facilitate the researches of biblical students of an advanced standing, who wish to investigate and judge for themselves, and therefore require a specification of the sources of information, and an exhibition of the processes of induction and reasoning by which the various results have been obtained. In the present work, the Editor has aimed to give only the results of his previous investigations; and to present them in such a form as may be attractive and useful to the very large class of young persons and others, who may be supposed to take an interest in this species of knowledge, without being in a situation to make a satisfactory use of the larger 844804 |