CHINESE HISTORY. 9I 



of Asia, separated by many thousands of 

 miles, and by some of the most impassable 

 regions of the world, from the cradle of the 

 Human Race, and from the country where 

 Noah and his family were saved. Such facts 

 seem to point to one or other of two con- 

 clusions—either that the Flood must have 

 happened at a period in the history of Man 

 vastly earlier than any that has been usually 

 supposed, or else that the Flood destroyed 

 only a small portion of the Human Family. 

 That the Deluge affected only a small portion 



It is this gentleman's opinion that the Chinese Tribe was only 

 beginning to grow into a kingdom about 2,000 B.C. and, 

 that 1,200 years later, the kingdom did not extend nearly so 

 far south as the Yang-tsze river. The general conclusion to 

 which these dates point, is not, 1 think, materially affected 

 by this somewhat shortened estimate of Chinese Historical 

 Chronology, 



