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Show LEA & BLANCHARD'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. LYNCH'S DEAD SEA. CONDENSED AND CHEAPER EDITION. NOW READY. NARRATIVE o·F THE U. S. EXPEDITION TO THE DEAD SEA AND RIVER JORDAN. BY W. F. LYNCH, U.S.N., Commander of the Expedition. New and condensed edition, with a lllnp, from actual Surveys. In one neat royal 12mo. volume, extra cloth. The univer al curiosity excited by the interesting narrative of this remarkable expedition, has induced the author to prepare a conden ed edition for popular use, which is now finished, at a very low price. In preparing the former editions, the object was to produce a work worthy in every respect of the national character which it assumed, and no pains or expense was spared in bringing out a volume as handsome as anything of the kind as yet prepared in this country. The great demand, which has rapidly exhausted many large impressions of this edition, notwithstanding its price, is a sufficient proof of the intrinsic value and interest of the work; and in presenting this new and cheaper edition, the publishers would merely state that it contains all the substance of the former volume, from the time the expedition reached Lake Tiberias till its departure from Jerusalem, embracing all the explorations upon the river Jordan and the Dead Sea. Some matter in the preliminary and concluding chapters has been omitted or condensed, and the two maps of the former edition have been reduced in one, preserving, however, all the more important features of the country described. In its present form, therefore, afforded at about one-third the price of the more costly issue, in a neat and handsome volume, admirably adapted for parlor or fireside reading, or for district schools, Sabbath schools, and other libraries, the publishers confidently anticipate a very extensive demand. Copies may still be had of the FINE :EDITION, In one very large and handsome octavo volume, With Twenty-eight beautiful Plates, and Two Maps. This book, so long and anxiously expected, fully sustains the hopes of the most san-rn~ n~;~~:rl~~~~~~ll !} :h:r~~;t ~~d't?~~~:~~ha~~~ter'7~! ~ree~fs";!'~h~ ~na~~~n~~~~~ ~~;~ntt~t ~~w;~~~~r~d~~;"y~~r~~teTt~ ~~~rl~~l~ri~~~r~'s~~~0t~~l ~~bl:~r~~~t·~\:~h popularity and immortality at once. It must be read to be appreciated; and it will be read extensively, and valued, both in this and other countries.-Lady's Book, .A.ug.1849. When, however, he fairly "gets under weigh," every page possesses interest, and :7r:'l~\~o:X~l~:f~se~~h~e:.;is~e~\~g;r!~~s :pno~ t~t~lchs t~~Y~g~s~o;;ntht~~r~f:h:i ~~si~~K:ees~8~b~: ~~~~:~~~~'j;~di~~i~d~ dij~gh~~ :O~~i~~~dr~:tebrl~lJ;~~e :::~r~:!,~ led~,:e of scriptural Geography, particularly in his charts of the Jordan and Dead Sea, which he fully explored. If our readers wish to know all he has done, they must fh~~~h: ;~~~r:haedr~t·a~~okdn:t~l~~nfu~~ a~~~ ei~e~h:ir 0d~~~~t~e*t, ;:de ~~:n,;:~~~ :~~ plates are all that could be desired.-Pre.sbylerian. * |