The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-12


Tor sometime / bas. bet4t examining
lie geography OF lac Exo51s as given
Is Mos aad. 80 Far ~ can tu4H
IL Gems 10 br a3t right His d.@-ftp-
tion Of Eden. however haA given rise
~ much speculation. ] have taken a
hand ~ tryIng Ia locate ana ht&e
about reached thu conclusion that aut
now Ia il. The garden ~as akeF ~ ASA.
probably somewhere Ia Hue valley 81
the Euphratcs, but Elea embraced "a
much larger territory And the name
OF the second river = Gihou. the same
is IL that ~compas~et1 tie Whole land
Of Ethiopia" teen. 2I39. The great
Jewish historian Josephus says ex-
pressIy THAT Gihon was the Nile. As II
compassed Ethiophia L must have
been the Nile Now Moses knew where
Ethiopia Was for he informs Us that
he married an ~Ethiorhian and 4 man
always knows where his m0thtr-in-la~
lives. This Interpretation places ME in
Eden. ard consequently. is an add
tional reason Why | should be having
d nice time down here in this land OF
wonders. Egypt Is sui geneIi-. IN the
prehistoric past It vas the home Of
wise men. now 1t is the puzzle Of the
Wise. Long before the dawn Of au
thentic history there was a high order
Of civilization in the Nile valley. Its
people practiced arts that have been
lost to knowledge. yet the products Of
their IIld4NtibuS genus dIt here -
speak for themselves. For ages the
history Of the early Egyptians was
a sealed book. They had written his
tory but it was in their tOmbs and
monunents-in figures OF men. birds,
beasts, implements and curious looking
characters They had no better alpha
bet. only a few years back the key
was found that unlocks much of the
mystery surrounding the early inhabi-
tants Of Egypt. The clue was furnish
ed by the Rosetta stone which is now
in the British museum. Upon that
stone We're three inscriptions. one in
ancient Egyptian. one in the popular
language Of q later period and the
third in Greek. the two last being
merely TRANSACTIONS Of the first. From
the key thus afforded. Greek. scholars
worked out the alphabet OF the HERO
glyphiCe. Now the records Of the pre-
historic Egyptians can be read. and
az new discoveries are made new
light is thrown on the pas.
Only the other day there was discover
ed in tn" Valley Of the Kings tho
tomb of the great queen Thi. wife of
Amenhotep III. It contained her mum
my coffin and numerous other objects
The inscriptions have not yet been
translated. Researches are stili going
on and are unfolding the secrets of
antiquity. Scholars have gone under
the ground and in tho tombs and
brought out strange statuary and
paintings. and nave read the inScrip-
fions thereon by means of the alphabet
Of picture writing. The world is deeply
interested in these researches in Egypt.
The greatest interest centers in the
question as to the effect upon the
record Of Moses. Those who believe
and those who would refute. the Penta-
touch are alike keenly interested in
what has been discovered and are
watching the results Of Egyptian re-
search. People Of every shade Of re-
lieious bo'icf recognize the fact that
these ancient records tell no lies. They
speak fact that viii not bend one Way
Or the other to suit the opinions Of
any one. They are facts. regardless
cf whether they confirm Or contradict
ANYBODY. In the Boul1k museum il
Cairo are some TRANCE sights which
put one to thinking. Not onty have tho
standing monuments told their ancient
story. but the silence of the tomb has
been broken even the dead made .
talk again. There are ~sarcophagi
| Of kings Of various dAHaetieS with their
deeds chisled in the Syene granite.
There arc tho royal collins in Which
are carvings and paintings that tell
i tale Of the long ago. In these cof-
fins lie the mummies Of the Kings
themselves whose features speak i'll
eloquent silence. In III different Dom
are collected the historical series o.
statues Of kings. Of the different dv-
n~aSties. showing the features. eyes.
hair. beard. etc. As No1 pass from one
room to another YOU note the change
Of appearance. Those Of the 18th.
18th and 18th dynasties are entirely
unlike those Of the earlier and later
dynaStieS. They are 4 different race
Of people. Their color. hair. long beard
and -Asiatic countenanceS are wholly
unlike those Of the prior or subsequent
dNnaStieS.