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Legends — In "Edens" and "the Fall," "Noachean Deluges," 

 transformation of Lot's wife into "Sodium Chloride" (Hux- 

 ley), and Prophets treated to a submarine cruise in a fish's 

 belly." In Sir W. Dawson's "Geneses and Migration of 

 Plants" you may notice in a note to the first page he expresses 

 the opinion that most of these brochures (on Arctic Vegeta- 

 tion) were based on "The Flora Fossilis Artica," of the Swiss 

 Palseobotanist, Oswald Heer, published in 1868. Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie pronounced the Professor's discovery of Tropi- 

 cail or Sub-Tropical Fossilized Plants so far North as one of 

 the most remarkable in modern times. Dr. Asa Grey, in his' 

 work on the Botany of Japan, independently at about the same 

 time pointed to a Northern origin (high latitude) of various 

 related species now widely separated, during the Tertiaries, 

 when Seauoias occurred all around the Arctic zone. Count 

 Saporta, in a paper published in Popular Science Monthly, Oc- 

 tober, i88-^, states : "It follows that man issuing from a 

 mother region (still undetermined), but which a number of 

 considerations indicate to have been in tne North, radiated 

 in several directions. It will be seen we are inclined to re 

 move to the circumpolar regions, the probable cradle of prim- 

 ative humanitv." "Paradise Found," although not published 

 in book form until 1883, embodied a series of University Lec- 

 tures delivered by the Author before he had seen the Count's 

 conclusions from a Geological point of view. 



In 1876 Dr. A. Russell Wallace, one of the leading scien- 

 tific men of the age, wrote : "All the chief types of animal life 

 appear to have orisfinated in the Northern continents, and 

 that man himself may have appeared so far back as the Mio- 

 cene time." Well, it may be so. Dr. Warren, and even if the 

 fact was established, how could it prove the truth of the Crea- 

 tion as recorded in Geneses? We have written tablets from 

 Nineveh and other Chaldean cities inscribed 2,500 before the 

 birth of Moses, sfiving: seven or more dififerent versions of this 

 ancient legend, apparently from two of these mythical records, 

 altered to suit the beliefs of the chosen people, the Hebrew 

 tale is derived." To borrow the words of the late Professor 



