We are now getting nearer to the pith of the argument, and the first thing to decide is where the ark rested after the flood. The opinions of many writers are quoted, but it is clear that the name Ararat must be assigned to a range and not to a single mountain. That this range was situated in the East is proved by the fact that the host led by Nimrod, the grandson of Ham, into Shinaar came from the East. Gen. 11 v. 2, and various considerations point to the probability that it was a part of the lofty range passing across Central Asia to China. According to Josephus, him from God, seeing his persuasions to "Noah having warning of the flood given
repentance and amendment of life, could work no effect on the Corruptions of the Age, and and fearing by the violence of the times to perish for his zeal, departed from his native soil, and with hi: wife and children travelled into another Noon " Cuinese Emperor.
"Qur author is convinced that this country was China, and he now has the support of Chinese traditions, which record a flood at the very same period as the biblical deluge, and provide him with analogies that enable him to identity Noah with the Emperor Yaus: that is the great' Yao who regulate ed the waterways of China, probably considerably damaged by the deluge. During the flood there was no wind to move the ark, which must have come to rest in the vicinity of the place where it was fashioned. This is clear from the text "God made a wind to pass upon the Earth, and the waters ceased." Gen. 8 v. 1 Now there is no place so convenient for building the ark of gorber wood, which is pine, as China, where also the necessary pitch is found in abundance. Moreover, Chinese history not: only records the flood, but also tells of the survival of certain persons upon & mountain. These persons the author conjectures to have been Noah and his party, and remarks very pertinently "Considering that They only escaped the Deluge; that the Chinique Deluge was the same with Noah's; and that by what means the memory of things, both before and at the flood, should be preserved amongst the Chinois, when all mankind was wholly destroyed, without having recourse ta Noah and his family, is un-
Noon's Teacnine to THE CHINESE.
A very interesting description of China and the Chinese is designed to shov how much the thought, morals and philosophy of the Chin-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.