EGYPT, THE RED SEA, THE WILDERNESSES OF
SIN AND PARAN, MOUNT SINAI,

JERUSALEM,

AND

OTHER PRINCIPAL LOCALITIES

OF THE

HOLY LAND;

VISITED IN 1842;

WITH BRIEF NOTES OF A ROUTE THROUGH FRANCE, ROME, NAPLES,
CONSTANTINOPLE, AND UP THE DANUBE.

BY THE

REV. GEORGE FISK, LL.B.

PREBENDARY OF LICHFIELD;

AND MINISTER OF CHRIST CHAPEL, SAINT JOHN'S WOOD, LONDON."

NEW YORK:

ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,

No. 285 BROADWAY.

PREFACE.

I THINK it right to avow, what the intelligent reader will, however, soon discover for himself, that as a literary production, this book is of small pretension. It is a sketch, and nothing more-just what its title indicates; and primarily intended to give my flock some instructive idea of the way in which the interval of my absence from them was spent. As a Pastor's familiar narrative, it contains many particulars in which the public cannot be expected to sympathize as those will who are so personally related to me.

My journey occupied something less than eight months-a space of time affording but little opportunity for adding to those stores of information already extant the production of gifted authors, who taken altogether, may be said to have nearly exhausted most of the topics on which I have briefly touched in passing. I had intended to intersperse my narrative with certain views of prophecy, which from time to time have presented themselves to my mind, in a way not as yet fully wrought out; and to add more extensive particulars of the state and prospects of Israel, as connected with those of the Ottoman empire: but I have been obliged to forbear, in the hope of turning my attention