Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-24

In accordance with religion to think
the earth round or fOur-cOrnered. The
noted geugrphlst. LEONARDO Datl, de-
clared in i422. and his words were ac-
ccpted as the sober truth, that the
earth was formed like the letter T in
an o, that encompassed 1t completely.
This riddle he explained as follows:
The O stands for the ocean; the r
must be considered in this wise ,. OF
the figure the Mediterranean forms the
smart the part OF the upper line
(shank) pointing to the south is formed
by the Nile; the Don forms the north
ern part and completes the figure OPP
posite the point whore the two lines
(shatt and shunlO meet, Jerusalem Is
situated, and TO the east OF Jerusalem,
where the ocean and earth meet. Para
disc.
Tho Greek writer, Arriau." contln-
uos Hnupt. says In his history of the
great AleNlnder's wars. that the con-
queror believed the source of the Nile
10 be situated in India; that 1t Travelled
first through the Desert, then entered
Ethiopla and finally Egypt, to flow into
the Mediterranean, AleNander,' ac-
cordlng to Arrian. Informed his moth
err, olympias. OF this discovery and ex.
planned to her how and why the river
he had In mind lost its original name
Indus and became known as the Nile
In later years Alexander learned from
the natives Of india his mistake, but
even the more advanced Of his cOntcm-
poraries had meanwhile accepted his
Nile source theory and preached 1t
right along.
Adrian himself believed in It, and he
lived In the last quarter OF the second
century after Christ. For centuries
the Nile was taught To be a branch OF
the Niger The founder OF scientific
astronomy, Hipparch, who lived In Tho.
second century before Christ. believed
East Africa and East Asia TO be CON
nected by land, a theory which was
not fully explained away until Vasco
az Cana found the maritime route to
East India In the Fifteenth century.
Previous to 1iS9-that Is ave years
prior to Luthor's blrth-the greater
part OF the coast OF Africa remained
UNEMPLOYED.
'All these facts" says Haupt. 1--WE
ought to bear In mind while consider
ioE the question "a to the acceptance
or non-acceptaace Of Delit2sch's story
relating to the geographical situation
of Paradise. The Biblical narrative, in
short, reads az follows.
And the Lord planted a garden
eastward in Eden. And river
| went out of Eden 10 water the garden,
| aud from thence Il was parted and be-
/ came into four heads The name OF the
| hrst Is Pison: That Is It which COM
] istN'eNA AHe Whnie ianu or HdNlluh,
where there is gold. ." There Is
bdellium and the onyx stone. 49, The
name Of the second river IS Gihon.
II compasseth the whole land
Of Ethiopia. The name OF the third
| river Is Hiddckel which goeth
toward the east Of Assyria. And the
fourth river Is Euphrates.'
Two OF the Paradise rivers" SAYS
laupt, cannot he mistnken-tht
Euphrates and the one now known as
Tigrs, twin streams flowing through
Mesopoiamia, which means Two River
Land. There was no necessity OF de
soribing the Euphrates, as every He
brew knew H. The remark that tn,
Tigris OHiddekeD flowed east Of AssyrIr
y also correct, for the description co
ineides With the northern part OF Meso
potamla, The Hebrew narrator count
the Paradise rivers from east TO west
The Tigris r. the third. Euphrates tn
/. fourth. Proceeding further to the cas-
we come upon to the Gihon. encircllnl
Ethiopia. and sprlnging. according 4
the Bible, from the same source a
! Eunhrates and Tigris.'
N the reader VIII consult a roaer
atlas he will flnd that there p no sut