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[ Let me at once protest against the assertions contained in an able review of "The Gold-Mines of Midian" (Pall Mall Gazette, June 7, 1878). The writer makes ancient Midian extend from the north of the Arabic Gulf (El-'Akabah?) and Arabia Felix (which? of the classics or of the moderns?) to the plains of Moab"—exactly where it assuredly does not now extend.]
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[ Described in Chap. XV.]
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[ This place is noticed in "The Gold-Mines of Midian," Chap. X.]
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[ I am not certain of this name, as several variants were given to me. For historical notices of the ruined town of Khulasah, see Chap. IV.]
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[ In "The Gold-Mines of Midian," Chap. V., occur several differences of nomenclature, which may or may not be mistakes. They are corrected in my "Itineraries," part ii. sect. 2.]