Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history and antiquities of the countries visited / By W.R. Wilde.

William Wilde

Date:: 1844

Credit: Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history and antiquities of the countries visited / By W.R. Wilde. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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to the “Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy ” for this year; and drawings of both the ancient and modern tower will he found at page 9 of this edition. Of Madeira and the Canaries, I feel that too much cannot be said; and upon comparing my own notes with the opinions and investigations of others, I am daily more and more convinced, that for a particular class of invalids they are vastly superior to any other climate within the same distance of our shores. The chapter on Madeira has been almost re-written, and from the interest which it appeared to excite in its original state, as well as to answer the multifarious questions which are so fre¬ quently put to me by those intending to visit the island, I have enlarged it with a variety of information suited to invalids and temporary residents, and derived from the most authentic sources. Teneriffe has been revised in a like manner. Dr. Lepsius and others having claimed as a discovery the proper understanding of the mode in which the coating was placed upon the Pyramids, in accordance with the text of Herodotus, subse¬ quent to the reprint of those pages in which the subject is dis¬ cussed, I have answered his and the views of Messrs. Perring and James Wild, in “The Athenseum” for April 20th, 1844. On the subject of Tyre I have had the advantage of the obser¬ vations of those engineers who visited that place previous to the late Syrian war. The researches concerning the topographies of ancient Tyre and Jerusalem, have cost me much labour and patient investiga¬ tion, and I trust they may continue to be thought of interest, both by the biblical student and the general reader. The topo¬ graphical portion of Jerusalem, I have very carefully revised; and while I see no reason to change the opinions which I originally put forward on that most interesting subject, I have stated the views of Dr. Robinson, I trust with fairness and truth. In these opinions I have likewise been strengthened by those of Gesenius; and those objections, which I was the first to urge against the views of Dr. E. D. Clarke, have since been confirmed by all observant travellers.

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