Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ow^n from thenorth, and would be driven ashore somewhere near the junction of thetwo rivers. (2) When at Ur of the Chaldees the other day we found that theArabs called the mounds to the south of Ur Nuawes. Now, Nu is Arabic for Noah. That those primitive and early peojjles whose records we possessin Genesis were certainly under the impression that the whole worldwas drowned out with the Tigris-Euphrates Delta is proved by theonly explanation they could find for the great influx of people intothe valley from the surrounding
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ow^n from thenorth, and would be driven ashore somewhere near the junction of thetwo rivers. (2) When at Ur of the Chaldees the other day we found that theArabs called the mounds to the south of Ur Nuawes. Now, Nu is Arabic for Noah. That those primitive and early peojjles whose records we possessin Genesis were certainly under the impression that the whole worldwas drowned out with the Tigris-Euphrates Delta is proved by theonly explanation they could find for the great influx of people intothe valley from the surrounding countries once order began again tobe established. They could attribute the multiplicity of languageswhich began to be sf)oken*all at once to nothing but divine anger attheir extraordinary high hopes and ambitions. The tradition of the flaming sword of the Cherubim at the Easterngate of Paradise near Hit may have been connected with the bitumenand naphtha springs which abound in that locality. The region to-day is called * El Nafitha by the Arabs.—W. Willcocks. 31. House Doc. 112; 61st Cong., 2d Sess. SMITHSONIAN REPORT 1909-WILLCOCKS MAP IV
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