Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1915 — WHERE WAS GARDEN OF EDEN [ARTICLE]

WHERE WAS GARDEN OF EDEN

Authorities Differ as to Location of Spot Where Man Lived in Innocence. Some authorities who have devoted themselves to this subject have rendered the opinion that the Garden of Eden was on the peninsula between the Tigris and the Euphrates, and this position has been stoutly maintained. In fact, a number of locations in that region, which was the olden land of Mesopotamia, cherish the tradition that their site was that of the great garden. Some fruitful and determined writers have insisted that the Garden of Eden was in the Vale of Cashmere in India. Others have contended that it was on an island which has disappeared from the face of the earth. * Many localities in all parts of the world have inhabitants so proud of their climate, scenery and products that they insist to all strangers that the Garden of Eden blossomed there. The removal of the Garden of Eden by means of scientific speculation .to the far southern part of South America has, says the Washington Star, the merit of novelty and audacity, but the weight of opinion is that the most beautiful and the most famous garden of the world and of all time was somewhere down in the lands watered by the Tigriß and the Euphrates.