Deuter, C.Ii.] The Preservation Of The Latter Name, And Of Those Of Diban, Medaba, Aroer, Amman, Together With The Other Geographical Facts Derived From The Journey Of Burckhardt Through The Countries Beyond The Dead Sea, Furnishes A Most Satisfactory Illustration Of The Sacred Historians.

[P.xvii]It remains for the Editor only to add, that while correcting the foreign idiom of his Author,

And making numerous alterations in the structure of the language, he has been as careful as posible not to injure the originality of the composition, stamped as it is with the simplicity, good sense, and candour, inseparable from the Author's character. In the Editor's wish, however, to preserve this originality, he cannot flatter himself that incorrect expressions may not sometimes have been left. In regard to the Greek inscriptions, he thinks it necessary only to remark, that although the propriety of furnishing the reader with fac-similes of all such interesting relicts of ancient history cannot in general be doubted, yet in the present instance, the trouble and expense which it would have occasioned, would hardly have been compensated by the importance of the monuments themselves, or by the degree of correctness with which they were copied by the traveller. They have therefore been printed in a type nearly resembling the Greek characters which were in use at the date of the inscriptions, and the Editor has taken the liberty of separating the words, and of supplying in the small cursive Greek character, the defective parts of the traveller's copies.

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