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Show TO IRRIGATE THE GARDEN OF EDEN i The Garden of Eden is to be irrigated irri-gated and madie fit for habitation. At least so say the French and Brit- ish governments. The garden was a prize of the late war which they now own conjointly; and which, conjointly, conjoint-ly, they must now retrieve from the evil days into which it fell under the rule of the Turk. Eden, as under- j stood in this proposal, consists of millions of fertile acres 50 miles west of Bagdad along the Euphrates River. Riv-er. When Herodotus', who was born in 384. B. C, visited Mesopotamia, he saddl he found it a forest of verdure ver-dure from end to end." The Babylonians, Baby-lonians, whose country it was, were famed for their canals; their system of irrigation has amazed engineers through all the ages since and is still a matter of wonder to 20th century scientists. An intricate system of canals that watered all Babylonia spreads its ru-' ins in the sands for miles around Bagdad. One giant waterway, the Narawan, ran parallel with the Tigris Ti-gris for 300 miles. The date of the building of Narawan was probably about 2500 or 4000 B. C. There were, older canals in this area, however, along the ruined sites of which the Anglo-French canal building will be carried on. According to archaeologists archaeol-ogists the Garden of Eden was situated1 sit-uated1 in this territory, but where is a matter of conjecture. |