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North* refer to the second dispersion, and coincide 

 with the Ararat of Genesis and the c Mountain of the 

 North ' on which the ship of Hasisadra was supposed 

 by the Chaldeans to have grounded. 



9. We are now in a position to correlate the 

 historical Deluge with the great geographical changes 

 which closed the palanthropic age. This, when 

 regarded as an established fact, furnishes the solution 

 of many of the most disputed questions of anthro- 

 pology. The misuse of the Deluge in the early 

 history of geology, in employing it to account for 

 changes that took place long before the advent of 

 man, certainly should not cause us to neglect its 

 legitimate uses, when these arise in the progress of 

 investigation. It is evident that if this correlation be 

 accepted as probable, it must modify many views 

 now held as to the antiquity of man. In that case, 

 the modern rubble spread over plateaus and in river 

 valleys, far above the reach of the present floods, may 

 be accounted for, not by the ordinary action of the 

 existing streams, but by the abnormal action of 

 currents of water diluvial in their character. Further, 

 since the historical Deluge cannot have been of very 

 long duration, the physical changes separating the 

 deposits containing the remains of palaeocosmic men 

 from those of later date would, in like manner, be 

 accounted for, not by slow processes of subsidence, 

 elevation, and erosion, but by causes of a more abrupt 

 and cataclysmic character. 



Finally, it has been the tendency of modern geo- 



