. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. VOL. I. CHAPTER III. GEOLOGY AND [Rock of Moses.] Our information concerning the geology and mineralogy of Palestine is remarkably imperfectand indistinct: for these were matters which the older travellers entirely overlooked; and thedispersed and incidental notices with which we have more lately been supplied are found to bevery defective, when an attempt is made to combine their facts in one connected , Shaw, Volney, De Roziere, Seetzen, Clarke, Burckhardt, Irby and Mangles, andBuckin
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. VOL. I. CHAPTER III. GEOLOGY AND [Rock of Moses.] Our information concerning the geology and mineralogy of Palestine is remarkably imperfectand indistinct: for these were matters which the older travellers entirely overlooked; and thedispersed and incidental notices with which we have more lately been supplied are found to bevery defective, when an attempt is made to combine their facts in one connected , Shaw, Volney, De Roziere, Seetzen, Clarke, Burckhardt, Irby and Mangles, andBuckingham, furnish nearly all the information which can be obtained ; and that is only suchas will supply materials for the statement which we have now to offer. That it is a veryimperfect one we know; but are persuaded that it comprises the substance of all existinginformation, and that nothing of any consequence has escaped our researches. Some geological information has been given in the preceding chapter, particularly as regardsthe mountains of Seir and Sinai; and indeed all the information which we are now about to
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