Summary
British body whose scientific quarterly reports, at the end of the nineteenth century, carried the persistent travellers’ reports of Palestine’s fertility and Arab habitation into scientific form, in Said’s account.
Details
- Reports of Palestine as a fertile, inhabited land persist in profusion through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, not only in travellers’ accounts but, by the end of the nineteenth century, in scientific quarterly reports published by the (British) Palestine Exploration Fund (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.32 / printed p.11).