PALESTINE, A part of Asiatic Turky, situated between thirty-sis and thirty-eight degrees of east longitude, and between thirty-one and thirty-four degrees of north latitude: it is bounded by Mt Libanus, which divides it from Syria, on the north; by Mt. Hermon, which separates it from Arabia Deseta, on the east; by the mountains of Seir and the deserts of Arabia Petraea, on the south; and by the Mediterranean Sea on the west.
It was called Palestine, from the Philistines who inhabited the sea coasts. It was also called Judea, from Judah; and the Holy Land, from our Saviour's residence and sufferings in it; and it is called Canaan and the Promised Land by the Scriptures.
It is 150 miles in length, and 80 in breadth; and in the time of solomon it seems to have extended from the Mediterranean Sea to the river Euphrates. --- Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol III, 1772
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