Fit as Fiddles and as Hard as Nails

identified these species I will not further elaborate the conclusions which the presence of sea shells and water-worn boulders would determine respecting the ruins of Ur of the Chaldees. But the testimony would lead my to suspect that,-
(a). Ur, in the time of its prosperity, was a sea coast town
(b). The advance of the delta, by separating Ur fruther from the sea and isolating it in the desert was the cause of its decline & final ruin
(c). That by knowing the date of Ur as a prosperous city, a calculation might be made of the rate of advande of this delta.
(d) That the supposed site of the Garden of Eden must be a myth, for when Ur was a thriving city, Kurna was beneath the sea.
*The subject is worthy of further consider-

* See discussion in later Vol.