“…She may have read Oliphant's Haifa or Life in Modern Palestine, studied the geography of the land through guidebooks, or even consulted the new, revised edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1902) which, for the first time, devoted a separate entry to Haifa. 47 The short article noted that due to its favourable position, Haifa is attracting much of the trade of Acre. A railway to Damascus has been commenced, and it is proposed to construct a port.…”