86 THE HAMIL/TON ASSOCIATION. 
Najada lately excavated contained human remains said to 
belong to the early and later Stone ages. 
The following extract gives a description of the oldest 
mummy ever discovered, now in the British Museum. It is 
believed to have been interred 8,000 years B. C. ‘‘’The body 
is that of a man about 5 feet 9 inches high, with a distinctly 
intellectual shape of skull instead of the almost ape-like head 
found in some of the pre-historic races. There is a single lock of 
fair hair left on the scalp, suggesting that the skin was fair also. 
It is generally accepted as one of a race decidedly superior 
to the ordinary African savage. The best archzeologists have 
decided the mummy is one of the original Egyptian race that 
was conquered by an Asiatic invasion some time about 8000 
B. C. The grave wasa shallow hollow dug in the sandstone, 
covered with stone slabs. It was surrounded by water jars, 
the flints and tools. This is proof of a belief in a future 
existence at an early period.’’ Yes, quite true, but how does 
it affect Usher’s chronology embalmed in the authorized version 
of the Bible? Now, Sir W. Dawson, as far as I know, 
accepted the Noachian deluge as having taken place, but never 
produced any geological evidence in support of this view. He 
held the belief that the skeletons found in caves in Europe 
may have represented Palzeocosmic men who lived before the 
flood, stating if man is so recent geologically, he may still be 
very old historically. 
A general opinion prevails here (how derived I am unable 
to discover) that Sir W. Dawson was completely opposed to 
the views of our modern so-called scientists in everything. 
We are fully aware he was antagonistic to the doctrine of 
evolution now generally accepted; that he attributed the 
grooving and polishing of certain rocks to the passing over, 
when submerged, of icebergs shod with rocky material. The 
close of the Ice Age was characterized by a lower level of the 
land now existing. Bergs passing over the submerged portion 
covered by ashallow sea and grounding on it, no doubt could 
plane, polish and striate the rocks underlying and when the 
sea bottom was elevated subsequently to its present position it 
