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earth, and caused ihe plstform, un-
protected by any railing, upon which
Gale was lying, to dip. This mo-
tion threw him off. Many of his
bones were found to be broken. A
portion oflhis face was already de-
volred by wild animals of the woods.
Gale hadledavery adventurous life,
full ofincident He had been a lieu
tenant in the British navy. He had
spent several years of his life among
the Indians. He had be n apay
actor. 1t was only since 1913 that
he had adopted the new and his last
vocation of Eronaut. Mlny of
yourreaders will remember a man
who i'll 1881 performed,f for a hundred
or more nights, in rapid succession,
at the Bowery Theatre, New York,
the part of Ma7eppa. That man
was Gale, who has just come to the
melancholy end above recounted."
GENEALoGY or ADAM.-The Rev.
DIR. Smyth, who for some time past
has been advocating, with great learn
ing and power, the doctrine of the
strict unity of the human race, thus
refers to Adam and his immediate
descendants:
In the genealogy of Adam, but
three of his children, Cain, Abel and
Seth, are mentioned by name, and a
few only of his remoter descendants
appear on record. In the $50 years
he walked upon the earth, his family
must have been far more numerous
than this, and his other children are
expressly alluded 10 in the words
land he begat sons and daughters. :"
"The mother Of all living" was doubt
less a fruitful vine, and both she and
Adam were in the vigor of their lives
fora length of years which the post
diluvians know nothing Oh. Can
was a married man when he slew
Abel, and was then not less probably
than l29 years of age. Seth, who
was appointed by God to occupy the
place of him whom Cain slew, was
born to Adam when he was l30 years
old. The natural increese Of the
race of man is extremely rapid when
no hindrancc is interposed. "An Is
land first occupied by a few slip
wrecked English in 1856, and dis
covered by a Dutch vessel in 1867, is
said to have been found peopied after
80 years bv I2OO0 souls, all the de-
cendants of four mothers.' When
the creator undertook to people a
world, we may suppose that this
providence arranged for this end,
and no hindrance was allowed to
interp, sc. 1t is believed shat the
death of Abel was the first which
occurred in The family ofman. 1t is
not an unreasonable supposiilon,
therefore, as figures will demonstrate,
Oh It the family of Adam embraced
400, ,000t to 100000 people at the
banishment OF Cain. How many of
these adhered to the fortunes of I ain,
from whom a larg share descended,
or whether any, we are not informed,
nor are we told when he built his
city. Ifhe lived as long as father
Adam, and built it in the closing Pc
riod of his life, his own descendants
born in the land of Nod, j. e. in the
land of his flight, which the name
denotes, were far ore numerous
than the numbers above mentioned
would indicate. The same remarks
will also apply to Nimrod. Though
he may be, as is sad in these lectur-
es, but of the second generation
from Ham," there was abundan
time for population TO have arisen
on the earth, after food, sufficiently
numerous TO build cities and form
Kingdoms. The city Cain built was
not probably extraordinary for size.
but at first at least a mere stockdde
'ea'th,oork,' or fortress. Rome was
not built in day. Ii was once n
hamlet or blockhouse on fhe Capito-
line Mount. 1t was only the "begin-
ming" of the kingdom founded by
Nineveh, Rchoboth, Calah, and Re-
gon Of which the historian speaks.
Mr.. Kendall of the N. O. Plea
youne, is now in Europe engaged IN
preparing designs and Illustrations for
his magnificent work on the Mexi-
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