. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. d nowhere isloess so conspicuously absent as over those regionstowards which the winds of the Sahara blow. But, whatever doubts might be raised respecting sucha recent depression of land as we have supposed inChina, they cannot well exist concerning a correspond-ing depression on the other side of the great CentralAsiatic plateau, facing Siberia and Turkestan. At thefoot of the lofty Ala-tau Mountains, which border thisplateau on the northwest, the Russian military roadruns for five hundred miles along a terrace of loess,from two thousand to
. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. d nowhere isloess so conspicuously absent as over those regionstowards which the winds of the Sahara blow. But, whatever doubts might be raised respecting sucha recent depression of land as we have supposed inChina, they cannot well exist concerning a correspond-ing depression on the other side of the great CentralAsiatic plateau, facing Siberia and Turkestan. At thefoot of the lofty Ala-tau Mountains, which border thisplateau on the northwest, the Russian military roadruns for five hundred miles along a terrace of loess,from two thousand to three thousand feet above ocean-level, whose constitution is precisely like that ofNorthern China. To the south the mountains rise insuccessive peaks to a height of from fifteen thousand totwenty-three thousand feet; while to the north a rap-idly descending plain stretches almost without a breakmore than two thousand miles to the Arctic one who travels this region with open eyes, therecan scarcely be any question, that, at a comparatively. Evidence of a Deluge in Asia. 305 recent period, these waters washed the shores of theAsiatic plateau at an elevation of between two thousandand three thousand feet above present sea-level. On theshores of this great inland extension of the Arctic Seaare the sites of the present cities of Verni, Pishpek,Chimkent, Tashkent, and Samarkand,—cities whichnow occupy the very center of the Asiatic Balkash, the Aral and Caspian seas, with innumer-able other small depressions, are in the desiccated bedof this late oceanic bottom. Similar extensive deposits of loess occur in the val-ley of the Araxes, in Armenia, up to the base of MountArarat, and characterize other valleys in Northern Per-sia and in Transcaucasia. CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE, Among the most interesting corroborations of thiiitheory is the occurrence of Arctic seal in the waters ofLake Baikal and of the Caspian Sea. It would seemimpossible to account for this rema
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