Show AN olin chit HOT nOI NEW An exchange I tolls tott the story of at a II re ro remarkable discovery relating to tl Ut ark of or deciphering It seem seems that In lathe the tho course ering cuneiform Inscriptions on Oil QI tablets in tile the museums museum on an no ne of at the tho vessel of ot Noah was found giving a n good idea of It Its dimensions anti and form torm ns as veil 1811 as ot of tho the animals that t It sheltered Tho The dimensions given In cubits According to 10 the tablet the ark was wati wa m long lont anti and 40 cubits at nt Its greatest width It had on the deck d l a 1 blockhouse built of ot rafters ratter ot of fine finewood wood woM This was COO cubits long lone WO cubits cubita wide and ItO ISO cubits high It will wilt be bl noticed notice that these th se dimensions are much larger target than those given In Genesis An attempt has ho been made mall to reduce the measurements of ot the tho tablet to mod modern modem ern em standards It If the tue cubit used Is the tho old Egyptian It Is equal to about nL ut 20 0 Inches and n a 1 half The Tho length of at the tho thoai ai k would accordingly have been 1 I feet reet with lIh ft a 1 b beam am of feet cot The length of ot the was as feet teel width GiOSO feet teet and height S 9 feet tret Th The fhe greatest K ocean eon liners of our lay itay would have hac looked hooked small It Ir placed alongside a 1 ship of ot such Hueh huge dimen tilmen dimensions shuns 1110 The rue rich Irk It Is asserted II have hoo drawn so o water that It rould not have entered New York bar har barbor harbor bor her even e n at nt high tide It Is clear therefore that It the tablet Is an on authentic record Ot tit historical facts the tue deluge cannot intro have boOn been n a 1 local Inundation dation ot of short duration It must mut have mil hAIl a very vary rY large extension loll to make such Ruoh a 0 vessel el The translation of ot tu till tablet Is not yet It completed but lout among the th animals mentioned us lIB taken lJ Into the all are re dromedaries camels oxen mul sheep goats antelopes arid and rabbits rabbit Doves swallows anti and ravens aro are men mentioned toned among limon the time birds biNs birdsA A it fragment of oC another nother Assyrian tablet on oil the th flood was vas found some seine years yeaM ago agoy II by y o Smith This ThU had no de tie description erl t of ot the ark but related particularly the end of ot Its most wonderful voyage The Th Importance of ot such finds Is In Inthe he tue fact that they the go 0 far to establish he time historical character r of or an went event In Inthe he tho early curly history of or the tho human ln moo NOO that hat runny many would prefer pret r to rel relegate g tp to tu tuh th the h domain of tit myth lOyth If It there are din dis dl crl between th the statements of It tumor minor particular Us its It Divert by tho the As All miltn historians historian Moses It not rIot bo be taken as a matter of ot course cOUr that the latter must inUit bo 10 I Q wrong Th He lic Hebrew brew writer It maybe M presumed tl hind had hadas la lanil as nil many mony facilities for Independent re to research search in Egypt l the ancient center r of ot learning as 18 hud hind the tho recorders recorder of lit his history history tory In Assyria A Perhaps more If tIme the modern view sIev that Egyptian civilization caine O to 10 that country front from Central America Is 18 correct and It the tM cradle of tho the human race stood tool on the tho western continent there her Is 19 good ground tor for the tho thons assumption ns that t one who ho had hud access to Egyptian records as nil Moses Mo ell had ImAd would bo Ie bitter better Informed on 01 past history than the tho of ot ot other countries Tho The modern discoveries In lii this line II no are full tull ot of fascinating interest |