Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-05-04
Prince died in 1891. aged seventy-eighA
James Parton. in n. 7. Ledger.
the GREAT pELucE.
Satisfactory Evidence That the Enttra
Earth Was Not Inundated.

Satisfactory Evidence That the EnttrO
Earth Was Not Inundated.
Geological and archaeological rea-
sons combine to prove that geograph-
ically the deluge was not universal. At
the time assigned for the deluge the
surface OF the earth was substantially
as it is now. II, then, some great por-
tion of the dry land had been sub
merged. a proportiOnate rise of land
above the waters would have been nee
essary in some other part OF the globe.
For, as Prof. Alexander Winchell OBJ
serves. "the terrestrial globe, in some
of its behavior, may be compared to an
india-rubber ball filed with water. II
indented by pressure in one place, there
must be a protuberance equal in vol
ume in another place.
Hence, II all Asia had been sub
merged, proportionate amount Of dry
land would have been lifted above the
waters some where else. That Asia,
Africa, Europe. Australia and America
were all submerged at the same time
seems geologically impossible, and we
have no evidence which would justify
us to assume that God wrought so stu.
pendous wonder.
On the contrary. there are geological
and archaeological facts which evident
ly prove that some portions of the
earth have not been inundated by the
Noachian deluge. For instance, in
Auvergne, France; in the Eifel country
of the Prussian Rhine Province; IL
New Zealand and elsewhere, there are
extinct volcanoes, evidently older thar
Noe. that are ''marked by cones o.
pumice-stone, ashes and such light sub
stances as could not have resisted the
waters Of the deluge."
Whereabout was the delugep Indi
cations seem to point to Western Cen
trail Asia. 1t is quite probable that th'
leading descendants of Adam, the di
rect aine of the ancestors of God'i
chosen people of old, continued to re
side near the former happy homo o
our first parents, the Garden OF Para
disc. Now, this was undoubtedly situ
ated in Western Central Asia, as tn,
Book OF Genesis Enthusiastically indi
Gates by stating that four rivers, thu
Prison, the Gehon, the Tigris and tn,
Euphrates, had their source in the re
gion of the Paradise. That really tn,
Tigris and the Euphrates Of to-day wer'
meant can not be doubted. In the frs
place, of the Tigris it is expressly
stated that it is the same that passetl
along by the Assyrians. Secondly
there is no geological reason know
why the present Tigris and Euphrate
should not have existed in the days o
Adam, or even long before.
Thus, for instance, our Missouri, Obi,
and Mississippi, the latter about as ia
south as Tennessee. seem to have beel
in existence during the tertiary age
long before the appearance Of man upOl
earth.
Moreover, it is not likely that tn,
transient inundation caused by the del
uge has permanently changed the chan
nels Of these rivers, which it could no
have done without changing the entir
surface Of the surrounding territories
And, finally, the Book Of Genesis wa
written at time when no other river
were known as the Tigris and tn
Euphrates than the rivers which still
bear these names.
For these reasons it can not b
doubted that the Paradise was locate,
somewhere near or about the sources O
the present Tigris and Euphrates, il
Armenia. This is the opinion OF com
petent authorities. John Gmeiner, il
Catholic World.