Excerpt from Commerce and the Holy Land
This pamphlet, sent forth at the instance of others, is accompanied with the single hope, that it may elicit a spirit of inquiry and discussion among intelligent men.
Written only for delivery, without an idea of publication, few of the authorities consulted in the preparation of the lecture were noted down, but, as far as memory serves, those not quoted in the text, are named in the " Note to the Reader," at the end.
One thing lie has not dwelt upon in the text, which may, to many, be the most attractive feature - the great probability of an abundance of gold lying in the projected route across Arabia.
Rosenmullar, in his Biblical Botany, states that the ancient Hebrews obtained their gold chiefly from Arabia, and Strabo, quoting Artemidoras, says that a river of Arabia carries gold sand in its stream, and that gold, requiring little purification, is found in small pieces, the smallest of the size of a grain of wheat, the middling as big as a meddlar, and the largest like a nut.
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