ON THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 89 
There are at present a number of eminent scholars who 
support the Babylonian theory, the latest of whom is my 
friend Dr. Friedrich Delitzsch, Professor of Assyriology at 
Leipzig, whose arguments, set forth in a work he published 
in Germany,* I shall try to prove quite untenable when 
compared with the plain words of Holy Writ which I have 
already quoted. 
Although I do not presume to stand on a level with their 
learning, I will nevertheless dare to contest, on geographical, 
historical, and trigonometrical grounds, every point that they 
have adduced in support of their hypothesis. 
__ I cannot boast of being an Assyrian or Akkadian scholar, but 
I know enough of Semitic languages to convince me that 
certain mysterious words that have been found amongst the 
inscriptions discovered in Babylonia haye no more connection 
with Hebrew or Aramaic than with Persian or Turkish. If, 
as we are made to understand, the “Gan-Dunias” of 
the Akkadian inscription can be harmonized with the 
Hebrew words {Ty }, (Garden of Eden), then we could easily 
renderfrom the Hebrew }) the English word “garden,” because 
it begins and ends with the same letters ) gamal, and } noon, 
organdn. The word Dunias might also be construed to 
mean in Arabic the “ world,” because in that language it is 
written log Dinia, and 4,> Jenna, which means “ garden” in 
the same language, could easily be turned into ganna, by 
pronouncing the g as in gum, as they do in Egypt; and so 
both words could then be interpreted into the “ Garden ot 
the world,” as some men have supposed the Garden of Eden 
to mean. 
If we trust to conjectures and coincidences, nothing can 
be more tangible than to suppose that Yally-ho, the cry of 
the fox-hunters in this country, is derived from: Chaldean or 
Aramaic, because (\\A, talla, means fox, and Jor ha, behold 
in that language, that is to say behold the fox. 
Also, that the word Europe is derived from the same lan- 
guage, because 3Q, Hor, means white, and 12}, appa, face, 
in Chaldean, so both would sound like Europa from horappa. 
Moreover, no Assyrian scholar can say that the Gan-Dunias, 
in the cuneiform characters, represent the Hebrew text, 
either in idiom or construction, and the fact that an allusion is 
made to such words by a Gentile scribe, without believing or 
* We lag das Paradies ? 
