ON

EGYPT, EDOM,

AND

THE HOLY LAND

BY

LORD LINDSAY.

D

Fifth Edition,

WITH ADDITIONAL PREFACE AND NOTES, AND ILLUSTRATED

BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

DE LA

VILLE DE

LYON

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

PREFACE.

(TO THE FIRST EDITION.)

I HOPE that those who do me the honour of perusing these Letters will not take them for more than they are worth, a simple, and, I trust, faithful record of impressions as they arose, and incidents as they occurred, such as I conceived would be read with interest at home. In preparing them for the press, I have divested them of much that could possess no general interest. If certain allusions to members of my family circle have been allowed to stand, it is only because they arose so naturally out of the circumstances that they serve to illustrate them, or that, in one or two instances, I could not find it in my heart to cut them out.

I may be permitted to allude to the subject of many reflections in these volumes-the literal accomplishment of prophecy, as displayed in the actual condition of Egypt, Edom, and Syria. Others have borne their testimony; it is but adding a stone to the cairn, yet I cannot, and ought not, to withhold mine.

I embrace with pleasure this opportunity of express

ing my sincere acknowledgments for the uniform courtesy and kindness I experienced during my recent tour. To Tibaldi, Esq., of Alexandria, and his amiable lady,-to Colonel Campbell, her Majesty's Consul-General in Egypt,-to M. Piozin, Vice-Consul, -to Dr. Walne, John Hannay, Esq., and the Rev. Theophilus Lieder, at Cairo;-to the Reverend the American Missionaries, and Moore, Esq., at Jerusalem ;-and to Nathanael Moore, Esq., British Consul at Beyrout, (whose courtesies I regret having been prevented from personally acknowledging,)—my peculiar thanks are due. On my obligations to Mr Farren, Consul-General in Syria, I will not dwell in this place.

I cannot conclude without adverting to the lamented decease of my friend and near relation, Mr. William Wardlaw Ramsay, the companion of the greater part of my tour.

If excellent abilities and sound judgment, expanding and maturing every day-if singular genius for music and drawing, and a general love for the fine arts, balanced by an enlightened taste for science and natural philosophy-if sweetness of temper, a warm, kind heart, and sincere but unostentatious religious principle-be qualities to render a character attractive and estimable, and to enhance the sorrow of surviving friends for the loss of one who, if spared by an all-wise Providence, would have been a blessing to his family and an ornament to society-such a character, such qualities, were Mr. Ramsay's.