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Map of the Holy Land
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- Creator
- constructed C. W. M. van de Velde
- Format
- Maps, Atlases
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Gotha : Justus Perthes, 1858
- Physical Details
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- 8 maps : hand colored ; 128 x 82 cm
- OCLC
- ocn896890773
- Cartographic Data
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Scale 1:315,000(E 34°25ʹ--E 37°00ʹ/N 34°30ʹ--N 30°55ʹ).
- Covers Palestine, Israel, and parts of Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.
- Shows Ottoman administrative divisions, populated places, roads, and tracks.
- Relief shown by hachures. Dephts shown by soundings.
- "Constructed by ... van de Velde, Late Lieut. Dutch R. N., Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, from his own surveys in 1851 & 1852, from those made in 1841 by Majors Robe and Rochfort Scott, Lieut. Symonds and other officers of her Majesty's Corps of Royal Engineers; and from the results of the researches made by Lynch, Robinson, Wilson, Burckhardt, Seetzen & c."
- "Engraved by Eberhardt and by Stichardt."
- Each sheet individually numbered: Section 1 - 8.
- Includes 11 cross sections of the: Road from Beirut to Damascus -- Anti-Lebanon-Range and el-Bukaa -- Lebanon-Range -- From Cape Carmel to the Lake of Tiberias -- Country on the east side of the Jordan -- West-Jordan section -- Jordan Valley -- Mountains from Jerusalem to the Valley of Jizreel -- Mountain-Section from Yafa to Jerusalem and the Dead Sea -- The Dead Sea -- Judea Mountains.
- Insets: Map of the environs of Jerusalem -- Plan of Jerusalem.