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CHAPTER I. THE DAWN OF A CENTURY OF DISCOVERY.

Slackness of discovery during the struggles of the Republic and Empire--Seetzen's voyages in Syria and Palestine--Hauran and the circumnavigation of the Dead Sea--Decapolis--Journey in Arabia-- Burckhardt in Syria--Expeditions in Nubia upon the two branches of the Nile--Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina--The English in India--Webb at the Source of the Ganges--Narrative of a journey in the Punjab--Christie and Pottinger in Scinde--The same explorers cross Beluchistan into Persia--Elphinstone in Afghanistan--Persia according to Gardane, A. Dupre, Morier, Macdonald-Kinneir, Price, and Ouseley--Guldenstaedt and Klaproth in the Caucasus--Lewis and Clarke in the Rocky Mountains-- Raffles in Sumatra and Java.

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Publication Date: 2009-08-25

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