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told that the district traversed by this river produced 

 gold, bedolach, and the shoham stone. I have else- 

 where shown that this river must be the Karun, 

 draining the Luristan mountains, and that the pro- 

 ductions indicated must have been ' native gold and 

 silver, wampum beads, and jade and similar stones 

 suitable for implements.' l Thus we have here a 

 picture which may well represent the origin and early 

 condition of our palaeocosmic men. But the parallel 

 does not end here. 



According to the history, man falls, and is ex- 

 pelled from Eden, is clothed with skins, and becomes 

 an eater of animal food. Next we find murderous 

 violence, and a consequent separation of the primitive 

 people into two tribes, one of which migrates to a 

 distance from the other and adopts different modes 

 of life. Finally, we have a mixture of the two races, 

 leading to a powerful and terrible race of half-breeds, 

 or metis, who filled the earth with violence. 2 



In one point only have we reason to doubt 

 whether this old history fairly represents the palan- 

 thropic age. It notes the invention of musical 

 instruments, -the use of metals, the domestication of 

 animals as already existing in the antediluvian 

 period. Of these we have little or no archaeological 

 evidence. The only musical instrument of this 

 period known is a whistle made of one of the bones 

 of a deer's foot, and capable of sounding a tetrachord 



1 Modern Science in Bible Lands. 

 9 Genesis vi. 1-6. 



