2^0TKS GEOLOGICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN 



What else could we expect ? Natural history, etc., has 

 been long neglected, and the universities here teach a higher 

 class than he is likely to find in such a religious assembly, 

 instead of preferring vague charges and appealing to ignor- 

 ance at public meetings, assailing others who are infinitely 

 superior to themselves as regards knowledge and true 

 Christianity, why, may I ask, do they never bring reliable 

 proof in refutation of the men conducting the excavations 

 in Egypt, Babylon, etc. Take, for instance, scientific 

 Americans and others. 



" The oldest city in the world is *' Nippur," the older 

 Bel of Babylon. The foundation was laid 7,000 years B.C. , 

 ruins lately unearthed." 



"Egypt has yielded another find to De Rustaffaell's 

 researches. In the desert of Upper Egypt, on the left 

 bank of "the Nile," he found among the remains of 

 Palaeolithic things flint factories, a number of crude, 

 weathered limestone vessels, resembling troughs. They 

 are certainly older than "the Neolithic Age," which 

 covered a considerable period there before the advent of the 

 first dynasty." 



It appears to me inexcusable for a clergyman of any 

 denomination, now, to be unacquainted with recent dis- 

 coveries in Egypt, Babylon and elsewhere. Chaldean 

 records plainly demonstrate that the Jewish people, who 

 attributed to Moses the writings of early times, borrowed 

 largely from the library of the last great Assyrian King. 

 Take, for instance, ' * The Deluge. ' ' In the original version 

 of "old Babjdonian myths " it is distinctly recorded as " a 

 tale or story." " Ishtar " (Venus) plays, we are told, a 

 prominent part in " The Flood." In the Ninevite account, 

 Noah sent out the dove, swallow and raven. In this, no 

 doubt, "' The League " would simply find confirmation of 

 what is stated in "Genesis." The writer received an 

 account of the French explorations (under De Morgan) at 

 the ancient City of Susa. He laid bare the ruins of several 

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