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that the remnant of the wreck of human nature first released 
themselves from the fabric which had saved them from the uni- 
versal catastrophe. This situation perfectly accords with the 
point to which Moses has referred us; and seems to have other- 
Wise more probabilities in its favour than any other position 
which we have seen laid down. 
“It is not here intended to be insisted, that probability ought 
to be received as proof: but problems of history so intricate and 
inexplicable as the present, cannot be solved according to the 
principle of mathematical demonstration: proceeding then from 
probability to probability is the only way of getting towards the 
fact ; and where numerous probabilities corroborate and support 
One another, they are, or ought to be, esteemed almost tanta- 
mount to physical truth. 
“< It must be recollected, that the principal object to be es- 
tablished from the present inquiry is, that some position, con- 
sistent with the express asseveration of Moses, be considered as 
the resting-place of the ark: and that the point to be assigned 
must have a much greater eastern longitude than any part of 
Armenia; otherwise it will be contradictory rather than con- 
formable to what Moses has so unconditionally and uwequivo- 
eally declared. 
** That part of the ancient Persian province of Aria, extending 
from modern Herat, or Harat, to the country of the Gaurs, or 
according to the orthography of some, the Giaours, along the 
tract of heights called Hindoo Koh, is the place to which the 
investigation seems to lead, as having, according to numerous 
probabilities and cireumstances, most likely been the receptacle 
of the ark, after the secession of the waters from the face of the 
earth :—but before we entreat the suffrage of our readers to this 
opinion, we will abstract and arrange, in a brief form, some of 
the chiefest motives which have contributed to the preference. 
_ © First—Moses declared in perspicuous terms, that ‘ the ark 
rested on the Mountains of Ararat,’ and that the emigrants 
“journeyed from the east till they came to the Plains of Shinar’ 
—therefore, finding, as we do, that the mountains of ancient 
Aria in Persia are, though at a great distance, connected with 
those of Armenia, and that they are relatively situated with re- 
gard to Shinar, as stated in the Scripture ; these were motives 
which, in some degree, influenced the inducement to propose 
them as the probable place where the ark rested after the flood. 
‘* Secondly—It is not to be imagined that the emigrants pro- 
ceeded in one direct and uninterrupted progress from Ararat to 
Shinar; yet may some idea of the relative distance between 
these places be formed by the portion of time which the 
journey consumed, Aria is not objectionable on account of its 
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