. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. loess atthe entrance to the pass at Nankau is about six hundredfeet above tide. The slope from Peking to Nankau,however, is considerably greater that it is on the otherside toward the sea. Issuing from the pass at Nankau,a very distinct delta extends out on the plain for a dis-tance of between five and six miles. This delta consistsof a rather confused intermingling of loess with sand,and gravel, and occasional fragments of rock a foot ortwo in diameter. This coarser material occurs near thesurface as much as four miles outside the mouth of
. Scientific confirmations of Old Testament history. loess atthe entrance to the pass at Nankau is about six hundredfeet above tide. The slope from Peking to Nankau,however, is considerably greater that it is on the otherside toward the sea. Issuing from the pass at Nankau,a very distinct delta extends out on the plain for a dis-tance of between five and six miles. This delta consistsof a rather confused intermingling of loess with sand,and gravel, and occasional fragments of rock a foot ortwo in diameter. This coarser material occurs near thesurface as much as four miles outside the mouth of thegorge, the surface sloping to that distance in a directline at the rate of fifty feet a mile, making two hun-dred feet in the first four miles; but on the southwestside the descent is abrupt, leaving a long low plainseveral miles wide between the delta and the mountainsin that direction. On the contrary, on the northeastern side the depositsof loess, at nearly the same level with the head of thedelta, stretch for many miles along the base of the. 3 a uo h-) O(4 •4-1 u Q Evidence of a Deluge in Asia. 289 mountains toward the Ming tombs. In many placeshere we passed between perpendicular sections of loessfifteen to twenty feet in height. They were especiallyprominent in the vicinity of a small stream comingdown from the mountains about half way between Nan-kau pass and the Ming tombs, a distance of about tenmiles; but the larger stream coming down from themountains into the amphitheater around which theMing tombs are built has worn a broad deep channelin the sedimentary deposits, and occupies a bed fiftyor more feet below the general level. This bed isthickly strewn with boulders several miles away fromthe base of the mountain. The portion of one of theseboulders projecting out of the ground measured 9x6x3feet. From the situation of these deposits, it is clear thatthey sustain a definite relation to the comparativelysmall streams coming down into the plain from themountains
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