The Nearer East (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Nearer East The aim of this volume is to present the causative in ¿uence Of geographical conditions upon Man in a certain region. As the operation Of the same physical feature may Often be traced in diverse aspects Of human life, the same idea has to be expressed more than once in other, and sometimes the same, words in such a treatise as the following. The public for which this series is designed by its promoters is so various, that the first essential is to be generally intelligible. In the matter of the orthography Of proper names, therefore, I have at tempted no scholarly precision. Philological translitera tions Of, e.g., Arabic or Turkish words are eschewed. Such recognised conventions as Bedawins are retained. To the unfamiliar Asiatic names the Royal Geographical Society's compromise system has been applied, but familiar names, egg. In the Holy Land, or those usually transliterated on a familiar system, such as the Latin rendering Of Greek, have been left alone. Lt is useless to write Evvia for Euboea, if Piraeus is not to be Pireefs. As a guide to pronunciation, an accent has been placed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.