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5G T6R TO SINAI. [c II.

sess very considerable accuracy. Our survey
furnishes me with the position of all the prin­
cipal points, and my several journeys have en­
.... abled me to fill up the detail. Geographers had
been previously much puzzled to reconcile the
itineraries of different travellers who visited
these regions, in consequence, as it there
appears, of their adopting different routes*.

* During these several journeys, a very large collection of
i plants was made'which arc now in the possession of A. Bourke
Lambert, Esq., V.P.L.S., and are in the course of scientific
arrangement; but being of little interest or use to man, I have
forborne to insert the list here.