Excerpt from A Paper on Some Curious and Original Discoveries: Concerning the Re-Settlement of the Seed of Abraham in Syria and Arabia, With Mathematical and Geographical Scripture Proofs, Read Before the British Association of Science at Aberdeen, Sept, 16th, 1869

Perhaps it may be permitted me to observe, that circumstances of discovery have laid upon me the duty of appearing in your presence to-day, in order that I might read before this great assembly a paper upon some curious and original matter concerning the future civilization and settlement of the seed of Abraham within the borders of Syria, and Arabia. And upon so vast and important a subject I could not have ventured to speak, had I not been guided to the consideration and combination of some very precise mathematical and geographical facts, which I trust may only need to be exemplified and simply explained, to obtain your recognition as realities, and your application of them, as may best suit your views, to a variety of useful purposes.

To proceed, however, with my present duty, I would observe, that possibly there exists no need for my detailing at any length the present condition of the countries which we have mentioned. We know that Syria has been a land flowing with milk and honey, but that it is now waste and desolate.

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