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Excerpt from A Brief Description of Palestine, or the Holy Land: Delineating the Features of the Country, and the Places Therein Connected With Scripture History; Together With the Most Interesting Circumstances Recorded in the Old and New Testaments Herodotus, the most ancient civil historian, in describing this country, chose to call it syria-palestine; that is. 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.