The Land of Moab - Travels and Discoveries on the East Side of the Dead Sea and the Jordan #272097

The circumstances under which the expedition, the results of which are narrated in the following pages, was undertaken, are sufficiently explained in the first chapter.<br><br>The object was a careful examination of the present state of a country frequently referred to in the Old Testament Scriptures, and intimately connected with Jewish history, but which has not been traversed at leisure by any explorer since the fall of the Roman empire.<br><br>That the journey has produced some results which may justify us for having disregarded the advice so earnestly given by the Palestine Exploration Fund to persons about to explore - Don't! "To those who propose to raise any private expedition, we would say, Wait!"* - it is hoped will be admitted on a perusal of the narrative.