Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-17
THE SITE OF ED EN-.
General Gordon Thought IL Was In Nh.
Indian Ocean.

THE sIiG of HbEN.
General Gordon Thought IL Was In IN,
Indian Ocean.
Strand Magazine.
The following are the reasons for thu
theory that the Garden of Eden is al
or near Seychelles. could even mt
it at Prasiin. q small isle 20 miles
north of Maize. Allow that Genesis h
not allegorical, that Eden, its garden,
its two trees, did exist on this earth
Eden is district. the garden is a spot
chosen in that district, the trees vera
actual trees, imbned for time with
spiritual qualities; these trees, tia
bush, the ark, the tabernacle and
temple differed nothing from the same
things in the world, except for tina
time during which they were spiritually
consecrated or set apart for manifesto.
tions of God, or satan. Gods con.
secretion made things which were
equally clean, clean and uncleap;
therefore, | see no reason for doubling
that God did set apart the two trees to
be ono of Life, the other of knowledge.
or that God, when these two trees had
fulfilled their purpose, should have
relegated them back to their former
ordinary tree position.
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actual trees which had been sacra.
mental. and had ceased to be so; and
in Praslin, near Seychelles, and only
there in the whole world, is magni6.
cent tree, curious beyond description,
called the Prince of the Vegetable
Kingdom; it is unique in its species,
and on earth--the Laodicean Seychel.
larum or Coco di Mir. This, l believe,
| was the Tree of knowledge. I then
| thought il the one tree is tosbe found,
so is the other, and this | think is the
Artocarpus incisa, or bread fruit; it is
| a humble tree, of no great distinction,
yet to an observer 1t is as unique in its
kind and among trees as the other.
This last tree is only found in the
Indian Ocean. 1t is DEMONSTRATING
tree, and like the other, it is full Of
Scriptural types.
Having thought that these were the
two trees, then the question arose;
Where was the Garden of Eden? And
first came the information that Soy.
chelles is Of granite, and all other isles
out here are volcanic, granite being the
more ancient formation. Then the Rev.
ID. Bury mentioned, casually, that tina
verse Genesis 2, 10, could be read that
the four rivers flowed into Eden, not
out of it. / have boen at the source Of
the Euphrates, Tigris, &C., and unless
the rivers were forced to flow. back
ward, no spot could agree to central
basin III those lands, while food does
not change features of 10000 feet high.
So took the rivers Euphrates-as
Euphrates, on which is Babylon
Hiddekel as Tieris, ON which is Nine,
veh wide Daniel). They meet and
flow into the Persian Gulf. Babylon
oppressed Israel ~ Nineveh oppressed
Israel. Required two other rivers con.
nected with oppression of Israel. The
| question of whether ever river came
down the Valley of Jordan into the Red
Sea is one which has been much dis
cussed. That an immense crevasse
| exists from the source of the Jordan to
the Red Sea is the case; the depression
of the Dead Sea- is the difficulty; the
| ravines Of Kedron and Gihon are very
deep. Taking my ground, spirituality
and the similarity OF the name Gihon,
with the brook of Jerusalem, ! think
that they are the same. The Pison, or
Nile. flowed into the Red Sea, the
Gihon, or Gihon Brook, flowed into the
| Rcd Sea, Joined, flowed down, met the
Euphrates and Tigris. united near
| Socotra, and the soundings shown in
in a deep basin 1900 fathoms deep,
which is close to Seychelles. Cush 10
written in margin for Ethiopia. Cush
was son Of Nimrod; his land was prob
| ably near Babylon, now Bah ell Mandeb.
Perrin means Bah tgate) 81 (of) Mandeb
\ 1.-THE worldl. Pison means over. flowing
| the Nile overfows. Egypt oppressed
Israel. The Nile is believed now to
flow into the Red Sea; the Blue Nile
encompasses Godiam, province Of
Abyssnia, in which there is gold.
Havilah, son of Joktan, son of Shem,
went with Sheba and Ophir to Mesha
| (Sale's Koran says, and spread along
the Red Sea. The Sea of Zugla, op.
rosite Alden, is called Sirius Havilah
Sheba, and Ophir is generally con.
nected with Abyssinia, so think Pison
is Nile. Gihon means bursting forth"
the Brook Gihon is southern side Of
Jerusalem; it meets Kedron and flows
when it does flow, to the Salt Sea
Dead Sea-, by the Valley of Fire; it
is Tephet, Hinnom, the Valley of
Slaughter, the sewer of Jerusalem, tho
site of all abominable sacrifices; it is
| connected with Jerusalem in an evil
way; it has the same name as Genesis