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ler is entitled to charge 24s_ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * .......................................186 . I request Messrs Clark to insert my name in their list of Subscribers to the ANTE-NICENE CHRISTIAN LIBRARY, and to forward the books as published, through my bookseller, _Mr_ ........................................................ (_Signed_)................................................... If it is preferred to have the works forwarded direct per railway or book post (at cost of postage), It is requested that it be so stated. The Subscription is payable in advance, annually, on or before the FIRST Issue for each Year. [Pg 528] Now ready, in Four Volumes, demy 8vo, price 32s., handsomely bound in cloth, THE COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY OF PALESTINE AND THE SINAITIC PENINSULA. By CARL RITTER, PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN. Translated and Adapted to the use of Biblical Students, by WILLIAM L. GAGE. CARL RITTER, the late Professor of Geography in the University of Berlin, is known by name to many who are comparatively uninformed respecting the extent and value of his labours. In portraying the connection of geography with the physical sciences, Alexander von Humboldt had no superior; while in establishing the relation between geography and history, CARL RITTER was as unquestionably pre-eminent. A chair was created for him in the Berlin University as early as 1820. He lived to occupy it for forty years, and to confer no less honour upon the city where he resided, and the institution in which he taught, than upon his own name. And though but slight glimpses of his career have been caught by the people of Great Britain, yet such references to him as that in the Preface to Robinson's _Biblical Researches_, and works of a similar character, will convince the readers of this country that whatever comes from his pen must have great and permanent value. Professor RITTER'S main work relates to Asia, and includes therefore all of that territory which is known as the Holy Land. To this,--including the Lebanon district, Palestine proper, the country east of the Jordan, and the
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