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subsidence of the waters, Noah would endeavour to return to his 

 own country ; we therefore find the names of his descendants per- 

 petuated in the names of countries in Central Asia. Thus Cush 

 gave rise to Cushmere, Cushgur, Cuthy, Cutch, &c, Ninus or 

 Nimrod to Nineveh, Assur to Assyria, and so forth. In the 

 Chaldean history of Berosus, preserved by Alexander Poly- 

 histor, we find Xisuthrus (Noah) and his family embarked in 

 an Ark at the Deluge ; and that subsequently the family returned 

 to their former country. Again in the VIII Chapter of Genesis, 

 at the 4th verse, we are told that the Ark rested on Ararat in the 

 Corcyrcean mountains of Armenia. 



Javan the son of Japhet was the first man, by historical record, 

 who emigrated to Europe, where he probably founded the Pelas- 

 gian Colony. Such being the case, Noah could not have sailed 

 Eastward from Central Asia in his Ark. Armenia is a region on 

 the Western confines of Asia. This is all strong circumstantial 

 evidence that the torrent of the flood swept over the face of the 

 earth in a westerly direction. 



About a mile north of Ootacamund is a mountain peak called 

 Snowdon, a favourite resort of parties from the Cantonment. 

 Considered one of the highest eminences, it may be recognised 

 by a beacon on the summit, and forms one arm of a most pictures- 

 que amphi-theatre of hills opening to the northward. Another 

 peak corresponding in appearance and nearly in size, comprises 

 the Eastern branch of this concavity. These peaks with other 

 heights in the same direction, are spurs from the mountain 

 of Dodabett, and form the heads of ridges which slope gently 

 down towards the margin of the plateau, where they are met by 

 other ridges falling abruptly on their north side in mural preci- 

 pices into the plains of Mysore, except at the point where a moun- 

 tain range branches from the Hills across the low country. The 

 vallies betwen the ridges first mentioned, appear to have been 

 scooped out at the recedence of the waters of one of the Deluges 

 that flooded the earth before the existence of man. These vallies 

 are highly cultivated. The Hill of Snowdon, with the ridge 

 descending from it, preserve a North East, and South West 

 direction, forming one boundary of the valley of Ebenard, 



