AUTHOR OF TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, ETC.;" LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1835. PREFACE. EVERY part of the route which forms the subject of the present volume, has been so repeatedly gone over before, that I cannot be supposed to come forward with any thing positively new, or that has been untouched by other writers: nevertheless, as I have endeavoured to make my book a record of my own impressions and opinions, and as so far from viewing every thing in the same light as those who have preceded me, I have looked at many with very different feelings from what the generality of them have done, there may be some novelty in the writer, if none in his materials. Whether, therefore, I give satisfaction or not, I may escape the censure of being a mere copyist. That I shall incur censure of another kind is exceedingly likely; nor am I going to deprecate it, because next to the absurdity of writing a foolish book, is the absurdity of apologising for publishing it. The following pages contain a great deal that will, no doubt, be unpalatable to many, since I have not attempted to disguise my unqualified disapprobation in some cases, and my abhorrence in others, of that which more liberal persons tolerate, if they do not exactly admire, and for |