Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Picturesque Palestine, Vol. 1 of 4: Sinai and EgyptNext, in the seventeenth century, supervened the class of travellers, few and far between, who wandered from the beaten track, partly in pursuit Of adventure, partly for the sake Of investigating these countries scientifically, and who, advancing onwards to the present time, included amongst their number some few who have acquired a widespread fame - amongst others, first and foremost, the Emperor Napoleon, who, in his brief Notes on Syria, founded on his military expedition, has laid the basis of all the subsequent scientific descriptions of Palestine. But these travellers were hardly ever gifted with a sense Of the perception either Of natural scenery, or of imaginative and devotional Sentiment. Jerusalem, as was expressed by that great genius of whom we have just spoken, did not lie within the line Of their Operations.The third group partly resembled these, but may be distinguished as the literary class. Chateaubriand was the first He described - inaccurately, but Still with a sense of what he saw before him - something Of the peculiar conformation of the outlines Of the country. He was the first who Spoke Of that long line of mysterious hills beyond the Jordan which now impresses every traveller who visits those scenes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.