Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . orm us that, in their opinion, asin ours, whatever may be true of the loess deposits inChina, not wind, but water, must have been the agencyby which that of Russia was mainly REMAINS OF ANTEDILUVIAN MAN. This brings us to the point of supreme interest. AtKief, on the Dnieper, one of the largest tributaries ofthe Black Sea, Professor Armaschevsky has found hu-man implements and burnt stones, in connection withthe bones of extinct animals, at a depth of fifty-threefeet below the undisturbed surface of the loess whichcovers the reg
Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history . orm us that, in their opinion, asin ours, whatever may be true of the loess deposits inChina, not wind, but water, must have been the agencyby which that of Russia was mainly REMAINS OF ANTEDILUVIAN MAN. This brings us to the point of supreme interest. AtKief, on the Dnieper, one of the largest tributaries ofthe Black Sea, Professor Armaschevsky has found hu-man implements and burnt stones, in connection withthe bones of extinct animals, at a depth of fifty-threefeet below the undisturbed surface of the loess whichcovers the region. The facts he has fully described ina pamphlet prepared for the Worlds .Geological Con-gress which met in Russia in 1899. The professor wasso good as to conduct us over the field, and explain theentire situation to us. If there had been any doubts inour minds as to the significance of the facts before thisexplanation, there could be none after. This was at an elevation of three hundred feet abovethe Dnieper River, where an old camping place of. Bluff of Loess at Kief, bluff caps a glacial deposit, 250 feet above the DnieperRiver. The human remains were found at the base of theloess, 51 feet below the surface. (Photograph bv G. ) 320 Evidence of a Deluge in Asia. palaeolithic man rested on the surface of a glacial de-posit containing granitic pebbles from Scandinavia, sev-eral hundred miles distant. Other evidence of a recent submergence of Northernand Central Asia is reported by J. Stadling s near themouth of the Lena River, and ten miles back from it,where he found, six hundred feet above the sea, in alayer of soil composed of turf and mud mixed with sand,resting on a foundation of solid ice as clean and blueas steel and of unknown depth, large quantities of drift-wood, evidently brought down by the river at the re-mote period when it had its course here. Still anotherinstance is one (which I have elsewhere described9)in the lower part of the Dariel pa
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