The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-06-26
GOING BACK TO
CREATIONS DAWN
Finding Facts to Substan-
tiate History.
THE NILE HAS WATERED EGYPT
Three Million YearS-Deduc.
tiOnS of Experts from
New Discoveries.
DELvING INTO THE MISTY PAST


East Africa by the British Museum,
reports that he has found conclu-
sively evidence that the Great Lake
of Victoria Nyanza has been in ex-
istence since the Miocene Age-a
matter of 100000 years or so.
The lake is of vast extent and lies at
an altitude of 1000 feet in a noun
famous region of the equator. In
places it is of vast depth, the bot
tom probably being below sea level.
Or. Oswald found buried on the
eastern shore of the lake parts of
number of prehistoric mammals, in
GLIDING the jawbone and teeth of a
dinotherium of the Tertiary Era,
and some bones OF aceratherium
and authratherium, the ancient
type of rhiroceros. They were all
found close 20 the mouth of the
kulii or Kuya River. other traces
of fossils were unearthed at points
five and fifteen miles distant, in
what appeared TO be the same gull
~.
TIE. -inYegiisalicns. Mern.. started
close to Karungu, in what is APP
parentlr the delta of an old river
which formerly ran into the lake at
that point. At the top Of all was a
cliff of basalt, and below there was
the sloping bed of the delta. The
top of this bed was the ordinary
black cotton soil Of the district,
and Immediately below that were
the ordinary eOcustrum beds-the
top one Of gray clay, the second one
of red clay and white sandstone,
and the third one of buff sandstone
and gravel.
In each bed were fresh water
cells, hut there were very few fos-
sis in the top bed. There was a fair
number in the second bed. but the
rich finds we're in the third bed.
Our trip" says DR.. Oswald, "es-
tablishes the great age of the high
lake, the Victoria Nyanza. for it is
evident from the position of the old
delta that the river of which 1t is a
relic, most probably the old course
of the present-day Kuji, was run
FAR back as the lower Miocene pc
riod."
According to the british Musuem
experts, the discovery of the vast
age of Victoria Nyanza throws an
entirely new light on the problem
of human antiquity. One cOnse-
Quence is that civilization in Egypt
may have been assumed as probab-
ly having existed from $4,000 to
100000 years ago or even longer.
For, they say, if Victoria Nyanza is
100000 years old, the River Nile,
of which it is a source, is not only
of practically equal age, but has in
all that almost inconceivable
long period flowed in it's present
course of over 3,4OO miles from the
equator to the Mediterranean.
That means, according to the mu-
scum scientists, that the Valley of
the Nile in Egypt has remained for
more than 100000 years in vir-
tually its present physical state,
with conditions as favorable to hui
man occupations and human civili- |
cation a million years ago as they
We're 1900 years ago, at what is
called the dawn" of Egyptian his
tory. And, inasmuch as the Egyp-
tian culture Of 10000 years ago
was as pronounced as it is to-day
there is no way of limiting, by in
ference, the actual extent OF its an
tiquity.
In the course of the ages the
Victoria Nyan2a may have fallen
somewhat in level, with a cores
ponding fall i'm the level Of the Nile
in Egypt, so that in prehistoric
times the people lived further back
inland; so it is further inland that
their monuments and other remains
are 10 be sought. In case Of most
of the great lakes in the world
for example, Lake Michigan, in
North America, and Lake Baikal. |
in Asia-marine forms of life or
relics of such, have been found,
proving that these lakes once had
connection with the sea. Such a
condition implies very great
change from present physical con-
ditions. The Ice Age, too, is suppos-
ed to have broken the continuity of
life.
Therefore the discoveries of DR..
Oswald as to the everlasting condi-
ton of Lake Victoria Nyanza are, IL
is said at the museum, OF the ut
most significance as indicating the