﻿CHINESE 
  HISTORY. 
  

  

  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, 
  I 
  think, 
  materially 
  affected 
  

   by 
  this 
  somewhat 
  shortened 
  estimate 
  of 
  Chinese 
  Historical 
  

   Chronology. 
  

  

  