The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-11
THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
An EngIishman Discovers a New Lo-
cation for IL.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
An English Psychologist, Mr.. w. Mar
sham Adams, has been for some time en-
gagged in an endeavor to solve the struct-
ural enigma of the great pyramids and TO
elicit from the ancient religious books OF
the Nile land, and especially from the So
called Book of the Dead a clue to the creed
of early Egypt. In the volumes embodying
the outcome OF his researches ne arrives
at interesting conclusions regarding the
simplicity and purity Of the oldest Egypt
ian faith, and discerns in it a curious con-
formity, so far as the main lines are con-
cerned. to Christianity. That to which,
however, we would at this time invite par
ticular attention is the assertion that his
readings in the sacred books of Egyp:
bear out the records of Genesis as to the
seat of the certify paradise, and thai,
consequently, the cradle Of the human
race munst be looked for in Africa at
some point in the watershed of the Nile.
Let us mark the grounds for this at
tempt al a new Identification of the Garden
of Eden. Mr.. Adams points out that in
the region of the great lakes there are, as
in the place described in Genesis, the
"aeads" of four rivers which go forth to
wa.cr TIE whole country" There, beyond
mines of unknown antiquity and bearing
an ordorous herb, of which the HERO
glyphic name is betru, suggesting the orig
inal of the Hebrew betelu, converted hy
the Greeks into bdellium. There is the
fountain of the winding Niger, and there
the source of the inundating Nile There,
too, is the Congo, the river of life" cor
responding to the Hebrew Perth (fruit-
fuD, transformed by the Greeks into the
Euphrates.
What Mr. Adams deems more striking
still is the fact that in the eastward por-
tion of this great basin lies the garden
or paradise, three thousand square miles
in area, described in glowing terms by
Stanley as full of animal life, the sceptre
expressing dominion over which was one
of the insignia of the Egyptian deity
Amen. From that garden flows a single
river the Shari, exactly as in the Scrip
tural account the single river flowed in
the midst to water the garden, which was
placed in the eastward part of the i'm
mense Eden. Thence, according to Mr.
Adams theory, the stream of human emf
lgration found its way along the line Of
least to the fertile plains of Egypt, proba-
blv the seat of the most ancient civiliza-
delta of the Nile along the shores of the
Mediterranean.
To a certain extent the ground was pre-
pared for the effort to connect the record
Of Genesis primarily with old Egyptian
rather than with Chaldic traditions. Since
Egyptian monuments have been studied
in the light Of astronomy there has been
a tendency to hold that the civilization
Of Egypt was derived from two sources
of emigration, the one situated in the
Abyssinian highlands or elsewhere in the
watershed of the Nile, the other in Meso-
potamia. It is thought. however. that the
northward stream of emigration was the
ergier Moreover, many Assyrioneists
concur IN thinking that ancient Chaldaea
was principally indebted for eivilizinv
agencies TO emigrants coming by way OF
the Persian Gulf from Abyssinla or south
west Arabia. II should also be noted thai
sinol0Eues are now disposed to trace the
origin Of Chinese civilization 20 emlarants
from Chaidaea. whose own culture. as we
have said, Is believed BY many 70 be de-