The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16
RELICS OF ADAM AND EVE.
The GARDEN OF EDEN BEING En-
PLoRED BY AN AMERICAN
SCIENTIST.

The Sacred spot Referred 10 in the
Book of Genesis-A Consignment
of CuriOsities just Received by
the Smithsonian Institute in WASH
Observation-Disclosures of Many Won
derfuI Discoveries.
From the New York World.
The spade Of the explorer has at last
been struck into historic soil Of the Gar
den Of Eden. At last the scientist and
! archaeologist have begun to study the
famous plateau which has long been
agreed upon as the undoubted location Of
the Paradise Of the Bible.
Perhaps there is no more wonderful spot
on earth than the plateau-the real Gar
/ den Of Eden. AS the recognized cradle
Of the human race, it is of overwhelming
interest. but it is Of the very utmost in
terest, too. to the scientist and naturalist
for entirely different reasons. From this
remote and almost in accessible corner of
the earth. for instance. came originally
nearly every one Of our domestic animals
The Bible says in the Book OF Genesis:
THE Lord God planted garden eastward
in Eden" And, indeed. if ever there was
a spot which seem to have been specially
created and clothed with marvellous rich
ness Of foliage, of climate and of diverse
species of birds and beasts. with its YER
dant valleys and luxurious plains. framed
I by an encircling range Of snowy mountain
peaks. it is the wonderful Vale of Cash
mere.
Here it was that Adam was created
the first man. And here, too, Eve was
created as his companion. fhe serpent
tempted them and sin entered the world
all IN the beautiful earthly garden spot of
the Vale of Cashmere.
Little, very little, has been known Of
the curious people who live on this great
plateau And now that the explorer has
Uegun WORK among them the possibilities
of the work of research ana discovery
are almost boundless
Who can foretell what may develop in
digging in the very ground where Adam
and Eve trod? Who can say but that
here, in this divine garden spot, the Crea-
tor may not have left relics of the first
man and woman to be carefully preserved
for the explorers of the year 1895?
What would not be the sensation ere
ated throughout the scientific and relg-
ious worlds if the American explorer
U
this roof of the world" were to find I'M
disputable evidence corroborating the
Biblical story of the creation? on the
very spot where Adam was created to
dominate the world aHd the creatures
thereof and where Eve was brought into
existence. may there not be found proofs
of their origin and of the tragedy which
drove them forth in shame?
Here, where time has stood still, where
a people older than any known on earth
are living in patriarchial style, may there
not be found something which will bridge
/ the chasm from the present time to that
of the first man? The missing link in the
history of the human race is here to be
found If anywhere.
And already the explorations that have
| taken place upon the site of the Garden
of Eden have disclosed much that goes to
| corroborate the Biblical story Nowhere
| else ION earth, is there a place so nearly
capable of producing all varieties. all spc-
| cies of birds and animals. In no other
| spot on the habitable globe are the tenn
| terate, the torrid and the frigid zones
| brought close together.
The Biblical story of the creation takes
no account of diversification of species
! from a common origin, but distinctly lays
it down that varieties in animals and
plants were created as such. Noah, in set
| ting forth upon his ark, is stated to have
! taken with him a male and a female of
each species in order to insure its perpetual
/ ton
Unless there were some single spot in
| existence where 4 male and a female of
| every species could be found within a
| limited area, Noah's task in gathering
/ them together would have been physically
| impossible. In the western hemisphere
many thousands of miles separate the
polar bear from the alligator, the pine
from the cocoanut, and even the birds
of the air are peculiar alike TO the tropics
/ and the Arctic.
/ Nowhere on this continent, and no
where in Europe, so far as had previous
| ly been known, could there DE found a
place having all climates. But this it has
now been discovered, is possessed by the
sky-land of Cashmere. Here is a table
land raised five miles above the level of
the ocean, and from that very fact alone
isolated from the rest of the world, and
possessing climatic and atmospheric pos
siblities nowhere else to be found.
This tableland is cut up into mountains
and valleys. The mountains are perpet-
ually snow-clad, and on the loftiest peaks
a condition of intense cold prevails such
as only the the arctic can parallel. But ac-
tually in sight of these frigid peaks are
smiling valleys with all the luxuriance of
tropical verdue while the intermediary al
titudes show every variety of climate and
life known to man.
/ Ice that never melts looks down on
plains of burning, golden sands. The va
| reties of animals and vegetable life lie in
strata. In this rarifed air five miles above
| the sea level, every foot of altitude counts
| Here is found the fig, and just above it the
| acorn. They are close together, vet neither
/ can grow upon the site of the other. On
| one level of the mountain side are the
| wolf, the fox and other furred animals,
and just a little lower serpents crawl
Standing, then in the Vale of Cashmere
naturalist u-ft1
every climate Every living species is with