Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In an age which has been so prolific as the present in works treating upon every department of Scriptural learning, the production of a new set of ‘Bible Maps’ may, at first sight, appear to many persons to stand in need of some apology. A little consideration will, however, show those whose first impressions may incline them to think thus, that the best justification of such a work is to be found in the name of the subject to which it relates – viz. Geography. All science is eminently progressive in its nature; every fresh insight into its domains only stimulates the beholder to endeavour obtain other and more extensive views; every new fact which is acquired is associated with other facts, and serves, with them, to form the groundwork for further investigations, and to open a path to yet wider acquisitions. The world of intelligence is not limited by any impassable ocean, like that on the shores of which Alexander wept to think that there were no more worlds to conquer; and if the adventurer in the regions of science is stayed from further conquests, it is the ocean of time which constitutes his limits, – if he sheds tears, it is on account of the bounded nature of his faculties and powers, and not for want of other and more extensive worlds. Attended, however, from age to age by fresh votaries, each, in succession, profiting by the labors of those who have preceded them, science is ever offering to her followers a more fertile domain to labor in, and a richer temple in which they may pay their homage. Nor, among the many divisions of this edifice, are there any which are more indebted for their value to the continual accumulation of ages than that devoted to Geography. Other branches of learning may have sprung into comparative greatness through the exertions of individual genius, or the labors of the critic and historian may seem to have exhausted the resources of centuries, but the progress of Geography must always depend upon the gradual acquisition of facts,
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