As To The Flood, Doctors Differ

ouese, ui uas Amina aer Hirae, and Neumayer, in "Erdesgeschichte, " have attempted to show that the Mosaic accouiit of the deluge was copied with little from an original Assyrian version, and that it was a local flood which took place in the plains of the Tigris and Euphrates, not in the valley of the Jordán. In a recent number of Natnr Wochenschrift, however, Herr Richard Hennig tries to prove that a general flood took place in the ice age during the quaternary period. Many facts, such as evidences of glaciation and lowering of temperature, fonnd in the rocks and in sagas and myths, as well as the vast extensión of a great lake in the far west of America, whose level was 1,000 f eet above that of the Salt lake, go to prove that floods accompanied the retreat of the glaciers. Countries in warmer latitudes - for exampie, the Sahara - were converted into seas and swamps or were locally flooded. Isolated lands kept clear of the innndation - for instance, Egypt - but we xnay remind Herr Hennig that, according to Herodotus, Egypt was formerly in great part a marsh. It is curious to note, in counection with the glacial theory, that an old Aryan tradition tells of the "Aryans" having been driven from their original seat by the country becoming colder and the winter longer. The Germán flood saga tells that "the floods of the north carne far from their home and were turned intó ice, and the ice stood still, and the mist which hung over it f roze. " The sun warmed the drops, however, and Ymir of Hrimthursen, the frost giant in the forru of a man, was born. Bors killed the giant, and in his blood drowned the race of Hrimthursen except Bergelmir, who, in a boat, saved himself and wife, and from them sprang