But As
The Reader Of This Volume Cannot Reasonably Be Supposed To Have
Constantly At Hand, For Immediate Reference, The Two Former Portions Of
Our Author's Works, A Map Is Here Given, In The Construction And
Delineation Of Which Mr. Sydney Hall Has Attended To Every Suggestion
Offered By The Editor:
At whose recommendation the names of places are
spelt after Burckhardt's manner, however different from that more usual
among us.
[Thus in the map as in the letter-press of this volume, Mekka
might have been spelt Mecca; and Hejaz, Jidda, Nejed, would as well
express the proper sounds of those words as Hedjaz, Djidda, Nedjed; and
at the same time approximate more closely to the original Arabic
orthography, by which our English j (as in Jar, James, &c.) is
represented without the assistance of a d; although the prefixing of
this letter to the j might prevent a Frenchman from pronouncing it as in
jour, jamais, &c.]
By the editor's advice, also, several places situate beyond the Eastern
limits of Hedjaz are included in this map; since Burckhardt, although he
did not visit them himself, has given some original itineraries, in
which they are mentioned.
That those places do not belong to the region properly denominated
Hedjaz, is evident; but how far this region extends eastward cannot
easily be determined; and the same difficulty respecting it occurs in
various directions. The editor, that he might ascertain by what
boundaries we are justified in supposing Hedjaz to be separated from
other provinces of Arabia, consulted a multiplicity of authors, both
European and Oriental.
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